60: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to the Classroom with Dr. Jennifer Williams, Julia Fliss, and Nick Covington

What this episode covers

This episode is all about the Sustainable Development Goals, with some specific questions surrounding their implementation. If you're not familiar, the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015 and consist of 17 major problems the world aims to solve by 2030. Countries are working in partnership to solve issues such as ending world hunger, establishing gender equality, taking climate action, and reducing inequality. Each of these goals has many organizations working with the indicators - or specific tasks - within each goal. During our panel discussion, we talk about motivating students to reach the SDGs in spite of their gigantic nature, as well as how to implement these ideas in our ever politicized world. GUESTS Dr. Jennifer Williams, co-founder and executive director of Take Action Global, co-founder of TeachSDGs, professor at Saint Leo University in the College of Education and Graduate Education, and author of Teach Boldly. Julia Fliss, a language arts educator at Evergreen Middle School in Evergreen, CO and TeachSDGs ambassador. Nick Covington, a social studies educator at Ankeny High School in Ankeny, IO (and Creative Director at Human Restoration Project.) RESOURCES * Overview of the SDGs [https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html] * TeachSDGs [http://www.teachsdgs.org/] * World's Largest Lesson [http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/] * Teach Boldly: Using EdTech for Social Good by Dr. Jennifer Williams [https://id.iste.org/resources/product?id=4485&name=Teach%20Boldly] FURTHER LISTENING * S3: E14: Listen to Students (feat. Ayush Chopra, Cody Lees, & Meghan Kestner) [https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/things-fall-apart/listen-to-students-chopra-lees-kestner] * S3: E7: Writing for Purpose and Advocacy feat. Bryn Orum, J.J. Burry, John Warner, Stephanie Hurt, & Dr. Richard Wilkinso [https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/things-fall-apart/writing-for-purpose-advocacy]n