Clean Energy Fellows
Working as part of a regional Clean Energy Talent Development Hub, a project facilitated in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Lab, this cohort will operate as national K-12 leaders in building the water power talent ecosystem. These Clean Energy Fellows will focus on aggregating and updating curriculum, increasing avenues for engagement in activities, and collaborating with industry voices to jumpstart access to this particular career sector. An emphasis on blending history, future grid challenges, and the inclusion of voices from all impacted populations in the region will shape this project.
Regional Collaboration and Partnership Development
Water Power Clean Energy Fellows will meet consistently with the Fellows cohort to provide peer-to-peer feedback, build content knowledge, and identify equitable pedagogy to guide the development of their new programming. Beginning with the August Leadership Institute, this collaborative approach continues throughout the rest of the cohort’s first year and beyond, through follow-up consultation and participation in a Fellows Leadership Network. Throughout this process, CE will recruit regional industry and community partners to provide expertise on specific topic areas and support Fellows in their delivery. This partnership development will also take place at a community level, with supports in place to build relationships between Fellows and their local utilities, energy-adjacent industries, educational networks, and other community partners.
Throughout this process, CE will recruit regional industry and community partners to provide expertise on specific topic areas and support Fellows in their delivery. This partnership development will also take place at a community level, with supports in place to build relationships between Fellows and their local utilities, energy-adjacent industries, educational networks, and other community partners.
Curriculum Development and Thought Leadership
Water Power Fellows will develop a toolkit of curricular resources for their grade level. This NGSS strand aligned toolkit will meet the needs of their geography, and be replicable within other communities. Working together to identify and share materials within the cohort, Fellows will identify gaps in the coherent learning progressions over the K-12 storyline and collaborate with CE and industry partners to identify and develop tools to fill those gaps. With a focus on inquiry through engineering design models and STEM, CE will work with Fellows to create student-centered phenomenon-based solutions to promote sensemaking in the classroom.
For an example of curriculum from our Renewable Gas cohort, see this link.
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