Transformative education in action through ESD
What is ESD?
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an educational framework validated by international research and leading educational organizations as the way forward to deliver transformative educational programs that promote:
Our goal is to prepare students in core academic competencies while they are empowered to act on local and global sustainability challenges across different areas such as climate change, social injustices and biodiversity loss.
Over 100 nations and thousands of education leaders have urged to adopt ESD as an overarching framework to guide teaching practices and curricular content.
Recent international commitments from ministries of education and schools to align their education with ESD include the 2022 UN Transforming Education Summit and the 2021 Berlin Declaration.
ESD promotes critical thinking systemic thinking innovations empathy local citizenship global citizenship personal values community values participatory learning in formal K-12 instruction.
The tools ESD provides
Elevated curricular content
Evidence-based content on the causes, consequences, and current solutions to sustainability challenges.
Progressive pedagogies
Including project-based learning, experiential learning, inquiry learning, and solution-based learning.
Design tools and methods
To create rigorous and engaging core-subject lessons that have weaved sustainability learning.