Developing Climate Literacy through Artistic Practice

This article describes a 120-minute professional development workshop on climate literacy for a cohort of urban arts school teachers. Our goal included engaging teachers in reflective conversation and providing language to describe climate emotions—particularly those affecting today’s adolescents, such as climate grief and eco-optimism. We identified tangible ways to make climate literacy part of their classrooms, including connecting climate conversations to existing course content as well as framing learning experiences within climate discourses.