Welcome Back!
Can you believe we are coming to the end of your 3rd year with CAAP?! What a journey it has been.
Here is the Climate and Nature Leadership Pledge. We hope that many of you will be ready to sign on after all your hard work in CAAP. It can also help inform your strategic climate and nature goals.
Over the next few weeks we want to do a debrief with each school – to get your feedback on what worked, what didn’t, and what help, if any, you might need for the future. We know that some of you want a CAAP 2.0 – we are happy to figure out what that looks like with you! Watch for an email to schedule that session.
Reach out if you have any questions, and look forward to seeing you soon.
Barb, Danielle, Stephanie & Michèle
Mentorship
The goal of the mentoring sessions is to help each school apply the learning from the workshops in your own unique set of circumstances. The sessions can be with some or all of your school’s CAAP team, or others in your school community. Mentors can facilitate conversations and provide specific guidance and expertise to support the planning, implementation and evaluation of initiatives as part of a whole-school approach to climate action. You can choose to work with one CAAP facilitator for all your hours, or mix it up – totally up to the school.
Click below to explore the areas of expertise offered by the CAAP mentors.
Mentorship hours carried over from previous years, as well as 10 additional mentor hours for 2023-2024 must be used by June 2024. For an update on your current number of mentor hours, please email info@doornumberone.org.
2023-24 Workshop Recordings & Materials
Opening Workshop
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
We shared more details on the CAAP program for this year, and guided teams through a process to review where you are in your journey of creating and implementing a high-impact whole school climate action plan. We also reconnected with the concept of regeneration from another perspective, and considered how we can go deeper with our Territorial Acknowledgements in CAAP this year.
Carbon Management & GHG Mitigation Planning
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
An introduction to Energy Management Planning Towards Net Zero.
Building A Movement
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
Effectively communicating your climate action plan, vision and initiatives is key to amplifying your impact and building community buy-in. Together, let’s improve our communication so we can build a movement too powerful to ignore.
Student Impact Workshop 1
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
The Policies for Today and The Future student workshop series will engage students in school policy reform as a form of climate action. With the support of an adult-ally, students will be guided through the process of critiquing and co-creating policy recommendations that would move their school towards a more just, regenerative future. For example, students may review, research, and propose recommendations to integrate regenerative practices into their school’s uniform or purchasing policy.
The Third Teacher 2.0: Special Guest Alanna Wellwood, Principal of STRAND at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Alanna Wellwood, Head of Learning Innovation and Principal of STRAND at Strathcona Tweedsmuir School in Alberta and shared her presentation:The Third Teacher 2.0. Through a CAIS Innovation Grant, Alanna led the faculty at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School through a process inviting them to be inquirers, lead researchers, and learners as they reimagined existing outdoor programming on campus by inquiring into the ways that the campus served as a third teacher of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Learn more about the project she led at STS last year at this link.
Thank you Alanna for sharing this exciting project with our CAAP teams!
Student Impact Workshop 2
Thursday, November 21, 2023
The Policies for Today and The Future
Students explored how Nature’s Unifying Patterns can be applied to root their school’s policies in regeneration.
Carbon Management with Special Guests from Climate Challenge Network + Enerlife Consulting
Monday, November 27, 2023
Many CAAP Schools are immersed in developing their whole school Climate Action Plans with actions, goals and targets related to achieving their vision of a Net Zero or Climate Positive future. While the broad strokes of developing the plan may be in place, many are now facing the challenges of how to develop a costed, strategic process for a Zero Carbon Transition Plan. This will require a combination of financial and technical considerations to guide the school to a zero-carbon future.
Shifting Behaviour with Dr. Katherine White
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Special Event: Guest Dr. Katherine White from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia
Dr. White will share her guiding framework for how to shift people’s behaviour to be more “sustainable”. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and then discuss how Dr. White’s insights could apply to their school community.
Climate Governance and Independent Schools: A Path to Leadership with Guest Coro Strandberg
Monday, December 4, 2023
Coro Strandberg is an influential sustainability strategist and thought leader. She is a Canadian trailblazer and visionary in marketplace innovation to advance social, environmental, and financial progress and has contributed to the evolving field of corporate social responsibility and sustainability for more than 25 years. She works with businesses, governments, and industry associations to create strategies and pursue business models to address social and environmental risks and opportunities that propel society towards a sustainable future. Coro is working with the CAAP team to present this webinar for Board members, Heads, CFOs, and anyone else working in governance in independent schools. Learn more about Coro here.
Coro referenced these three resources in her presentation:
- Canadian Standards Association (CSA) ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Guide for Industry and Professional Associations
- Climate Change Guide for Associations
- Green Jobs Toolkit Resource for Secondary School Educators and Students
How can we embed climate change in our core curriculum?
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Several schools shared their experiences so far in understanding where climate change is reflected in the curriculum, and where and how it can be further incorporated. Craig Davis, Head of School at Mulgrave discussed the approach Pearson College has taken in their special IB program, and what they are doing at Mulgrave. Jen Walton at St. Margaret’s and Katie Field at Collingwood School shared resources they developed with a group of colleagues in the ISABC on defining outcomes and tracking curriculum work. Tamara Smith at TFS, Alie Elliott at TCS and Laura Brock at Halifax Grammar also shared vignettes in breakout group discussions.
Student Impact Workshop 3
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
The Policies for Today and The Future
Students shared progress on their policy recommendations and networked with other schools on how to move their work forward.
Nature at the Centre of Whole-School Climate Action
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Lots of new resources to build on the curriculum workshop and on your climate action plans overall.
Student Impact Workshop 4
Thursday, February 8, 2024
The Policies for Today and The Future
Students will explore how to bring their policies to life through advocacy.
Carbon Offsets + Credits, CAAP Journey
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
This will be a continuation of the carbon management and climate action planning workshop with a focus on carbon offsets and carbon credits. We will also be doing an overall check in on your climate action plans and what you need to take them even farther.
CAAP Annual Spring Fair
Year 3 Schools: Spring Fair Slides & Resources
Appleby College Slides
Sterling Hall Slides
Rothesay Netherwood School (see recording)
Mulgrave School Slides
Albert College Slides
Trinity College School Slides + Webpage on Sustainability
St. Margaret’s School
Hillfield Strathallan College Slides + Webpage on Sustainability & Climate Action
Year 2 Schools Spring Fair Slides & Resources
Ridley College Slides + Student Video on the Medicine Wheel Garden
TFS – Canada’s International School Slides
Day 1 Presentations include: The Bishop Strachan School at 3:08; Appleby at 19:40; Sterling Hall School at 34:40; Ridley College at 50:47; and Upper Canada College at 59:16.
Day 2 Presentations include: Rothesay Netherwood at 3:05; Mulgrave School at 11:44; TFS at 20:26; Albert College at 36:18; St. Margaret’s School at 44:30; Hillfield Strathallan College at 55:30, and Trinity College School at 1:05.