1. The Climate Education Policy Toolkit
 | Description: The toolkit is designed with inclusive language to ensure clarity and accessibility for all and to support anyone advocating for educational policies that emphasize climate literacy and action; career readiness and STEM learning, skill development, and healthy and just learning environments. The toolkit objectives include ensuring equitable access and promoting justice; empower organizations and advocates; comprehensive database; and catalyzing impact. To view or download the toolkit, visit the NAAEE website at Climate Education Policy Toolkit. |
2. Early outdoor play predicts trajectories of child mental health in a population-based cohort
 | Description: This study aimed to clarify whether outdoor play in early childhood may offer “a low-cost, enjoyable, and developmentally appropriate strategy for reducing children’s risk of later mental health difficulties.” According to the researchers, this is the first study to demonstrate that outdoor play during the preschool years is related to how children’s mental health develops over time. Findings suggest that preschool children who play outdoors more frequently may have better mental health throughout middle childhood. Published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2026. |
3. Seeds to Solutions: Five Lessons We Heard from Educators about Teaching Climate Literacy
 | Description: Holly Steele, Director of Professional Learning and Community Building at Ten Strands, shares the experiences of 30 educators who participated in a 3-day summer institute immersed in the Seeds to Solutions 7th grade unit of groundwater. There were five key lessons that participants took away from their experience. Read the article HERE. |
4. CNRA Speaker Series: The Heat is On: Protecting California from Extreme Heat
 | Description: Secretary Wade Crowfoot’s Speaker Series recently featured panelists discussing extreme heat in California. Be sure to listen to Brad Rumble, Principal at Esperanza Elementary School in LAUSD, as he shares about the changes he helped make happen on school campuses near downtown Los Angeles. His segment airs beginning at minutes 23:00 to 34:00. View the webinar HERE on YouTube. |
5. Mapping the Landscape of Nonformal Climate Communication and Education across the U.S.
 | Description: You are getting into your car for a drive and need something to listen to. Check out Justice Outside’s podcast series, Joy Outside, Season 2. These podcasts include special guests discussing a variety of topics. -January 2026: Sanjana Sekhar got us HEATED -February 2026: Noor Qwfan, This Muslim Girl Goes Outside -May 2026: Mary Pelagio and Nanci Torres, Immigrant Justice is Environmental Justice -May 2026: Sally Steele, Leave Anyway-Redefining Who Belongs on Public Lands Listen HERE. |
6. Planting the Seed. Farm to School Roadmap for Success
 | Description: Building on her commitment to ensuring California children have the best start in life, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom released a report, Planting the Seed: Farm to School Roadmap for Success, in February 2022. The report highlights policy goals to advance child well-being, economic growth, environmental resilience, and racial equity through farm to school systems that connect children to locally sourced, whole foods and produce in cafeterias, classrooms, and gardens. The report and its recommendations are the result of a collaboration — led by First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross — among a number of state agency leaders, education professionals, and farm to school experts and practitioners. |