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Emily Weiss
School Program Director at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
Emily Weiss is an accomplished professional with a diverse educational background and extensive experience in the fields of marine biology, public policy, education, and literacy.
She holds a Master's degree in Marine Biology from Boston University, a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy from Brown University, and a Master's in Education in Language & Literacy from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Emily has held various significant roles throughout her career, including serving as the School Program Director at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, where she oversees educational programs.
Her previous positions include Senior Project Director and Science & Literacy Education Specialist at Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, President at Southwest Marine Educators Association, Literacy Consultant at Falmouth Public Schools, and Teacher at Woods Hole Children's School of Science.
She has also worked as a Professional Developer at the Massachusetts Department of Education, Harbor Discoveries Instructor at New England Aquarium, Reading Specialist at Chelmsford Public Schools, and Marketing Associate at Kaplan, McLaughlin, Diaz.
Additionally, Emily has experience as a Program Evaluator at Public Education Fund and as an Intern/Program Evaluator at New South Wales Board of Studies.
Her expertise spans across educational program management, science and literacy education, marine biology, public policy, and marketing.
Emily Weiss's background demonstrates a strong commitment to promoting education, literacy, and marine science while contributing meaningfully to various organizations and institutions.
Highlights
🌍🌎 Calling all Climate Educators!!!! 🌏
Over the past few months, a diverse group of professionals from across the US has been working on creating surveys to understand and grow the landscape of climate career education and workforce development. Brought together through the Accelerating Climate Capacity, Engagement, and Leadership Summit (ACCELS), we live and work across five time zones, from Alaska to the east coast, and represent state and federal agencies, informal and formal K-12 and higher education, nonprofits, and other aligned ventures.
We have developed two surveys to help us gather as many examples of the good work that is happening in climate career education. Our ultimate goal is to help grow the work — to see more climate career pathways flourish, and more students of all ages and backgrounds participate. By the end of May 2024, we want to open up the results of the surveys to the public so people can learn about the opportunities near them, or be inspired by existing programs to launch their own. The audiences for these results will be diverse: educators and education leaders; people developing and supporting climate career pathways from government agencies and nonprofits, and people who want to participate directly, or find ways to support these efforts.
The first survey asks about climate career pathway programs you know about, whether or not you are connected to them. These could be as small as a climate career exposure unit in a curriculum at one site. Or you can tell us about a program on a bigger scale. You are welcome to fill the form out as many times as you need — if you know about a dozen programs, feel free to fill it out twelve times.
Link to survey on climate career pathway programs: [https://lnkd.in/ggijAH3W]
The second survey asks about funding opportunities for climate career pathways (past, current, or planned). If you’re associated with the funding, you’ll have the choice to add contact information if you’re open to applicant contact. If you’re not connected to the funding organization but have interacted with the funder, you can add some notes about your experiences with the funder/application process.
Link to survey on funding opportunities for climate career pathways: [https://lnkd.in/gmV6_i4c]
Both forms have comment fields where you can let us know if you have suggestions about the form itself (additional questions, etc). We’ve tried to give people room to describe these programs fully, but only make a subset of questions mandatory for ease of use. Likewise, we’ve tried to organize the questions to make it easy to fill out. But you can let us know how we did.
As we say above, our ultimate goal is to grow the work — to encourage people and organizations across the country to create many new pathways to climate careers.
