Climate Education
5 Achievements for Education at EARTHDAY.ORG
September 9, 2025
The 2024–2025 school year was one of the most impactful yet for EARTHDAY.ORG’s Education Team. From expanding global engagement to advancing policy victories, we worked tirelessly to ensure that climate education reaches every classroom. Here are five of our biggest achievements this year:
1. Launching the First Ever Earth Day Showcase
For the first time, EARTHDAY.ORG invited schools worldwide to participate in our global Earth Day Showcase, encouraging students to take action on pressing environmental issues such as plastic pollution, renewable energy, fast fashion, and sustainable food systems.
Over 600 educators from 112 countries engaged in Earth Day in Schools activities, guiding students as they created community based projects. Student-led actions spanned the globe from a renewable fashion show in Namibia reimagining waste materials into clothing, to Plastic Free Lunch Day campaigns in Virginia, to waterway advocacy projects in Pune, India. Schools in Guam, Shanghai, and beyond brought Earth Day to life with creative student projects that amplified environmental awareness within their communities.
This Showcase gave young people the platform to lead, innovate, and inspire, carrying on the legacy of the first Earth Day in 1970 when students demanded action for the planet. You can read all about it here.
2. Expanding the Earth Month Calendar
For the second year running, EARTHDAY.ORG partnered with organizations including the
Council on Foreign Relations and SubjectToClimate to launch our interactive Earth Month Calendar.
This digital resource provided educators, students, and community groups around the world with daily activities, events, and resources throughout April. Widely used across classrooms and nonprofits, the calendar has become a global hub for Earth Month engagement and climate learning.
3. Creating the Schools Guide to Climate Education
To support teachers with accessible, professional development resources, we launched the Schools Guide to Climate Education. This guide equips educators with practical strategies to integrate climate education across all subject areas and grade levels. The best part is that it allows educators to take an existing lesson and integrate core concepts of climate education into the lesson.
The guide was featured and demonstrated at major national conferences, including the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA Conference), where it reached hundreds of educators seeking innovative approaches to teaching climate change.
4. Strengthening Partnerships with Schools, Nonprofits, and Organizations
Collaboration was at the heart of this school year. We strengthened partnerships with schools and nonprofits, both locally and globally. In Prince George’s County, Maryland, we tabled and presented at the Student Environmental Alliance Summit at Bowie State University, engaging directly with students and teachers.
We also collaborated with the Organization of American States (OAS) to share climate education resources in Latin America and the Caribbean, amplifying the importance of integrating climate literacy into regional education systems.
Globally, our team contributed to webinars and virtual events cohosted by partners such as Take Action Global, McGill University, and the Canadian Wildlife Federation, reaching tens of thousands of students and teachers.
5. Driving Policy Change Domestically and Internationally
Policy advocacy remained a cornerstone of our work. Domestically, we supported House Bill 3365 in Oregon, submitting testimony to both House and Senate Education Committees and mobilizing our educator network in support of the bill. The legislation passed both the Oregon House and the State Senate and was signed into law in July 2025 marking a major milestone for U.S. climate education. We continue to make in roads by working tracking and advocating for climate education bills currently being considered such as those in Massachusetts and Maryland as well as being founding members of the Coalition for Climate Education Policy (CCEP).
Internationally, we created our Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Tracker, highlighting the critical role of climate education in meeting global climate commitments. By engaging with international partners, we worked to keep education central to the climate policy conversation. As NDCs continue to come in this year, we will continue to update the tracker and make sure that education is at the center of many of these commitments.
Looking Ahead
From empowering students through the Earth Day Showcase to shaping climate education policy, the 2024–2025 school year proved that collaboration and innovation are the keys to building a more sustainable future.
At EARTHDAY.ORG, we remain committed to ensuring every student, in every classroom, has access to high-quality, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary climate education. Together, we are helping to raise a generation ready to tackle climate change and protect our planet.
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