Undamming the Klamath: An Expository Reading and Writing Unit that Centers Indigenous Resilience, Climate Action, and the Healing of an Ecosystem

Gurbir Kahlon engages her high school multilingual learners in Torrance, California, with important literacy skills through the lens of environmental literacy. She has taught units in her ELD classroom on biomimicry, plastic pollution, and climate change. In this podcast, Gurbir discusses her most recent expository reading and writing unit on the powerful story of the resilient tribal communities in Northern California and their successful efforts to remove dams on the Klamath River in order to welcome their salmon home. “Instead of focusing on a doomsday approach to teaching students, which heightens anxiety, I want to work to empower students and offer solutions.” Learn more here: https://ca-eli.org/ela-superheroes/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.