This option appears in resilience plans from around the country.
| Option from plan | Hazards Sort descending | Assets | Region | Source Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build K-12-to-career pathways by embedding climate and clean-energy content into schools, colleges, and curricula. | People | |||
| The RainScapes program offered a first-ever Spanish language native planting workshop and worked with 40 residents to teach about watershed health, how our native plants support healthy environments, such as reducing the need for extra water and mowing. L | Multiple or All Hazards | Cultural and Community Services | ||
| Additional projects underway include a food garden at Kemp Mill Elementary and a food forest at Takoma Park Elementary, focusing on student and community engagement. Districtwide, MCPS continues to expand bioretention and green infrastructure, plant trees | Multiple or All Hazards | Urban Landscape and Tree Canopy | ||
| Climate change topics and content were meaningfully integrated into multiple professional development opportunities for MCPS teachers. These opportunities included Science Resource Teacher and Content Specialist trainings, a week-long course developed joi | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| A semester-long climate change course was offered at Northwood High School. | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| Engage Cleveland Metropolitan School District and higher education institutions to enhance education and workforce development opportunities in nature-based solutions. | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| “Global Climate Change” is a one semester elective course. It currently has 21 students registered for the Spring semester. | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| To catalyze innovation and expand impact, the State continues to drive investments in cutting-edge research and technology development in the green economy. Initiatives including fellowship programs that foster student-led research and thought leadership | Multiple or All Hazards | Economy | ||
| Guam Restoration of Watersheds (GROW) - this project will support 6 graduate students over a 4-year period to participate in place-based research experiences. Students will focus on learning outcomes of an agroforest, soil and emissions testing, measuring | Multiple or All Hazards | Natural Areas and Wildlife | ||
| Curriculum Development - Stakeholders identified opportunities to work with educational institutions and other partners to identify and develop the curriculum necessary to meet future workforce demands. | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| The Connecticut Technical Education and Career System is a leading Career Technical Education provider in the State, operating 17 diploma-granting technical high schools, one technical education center, and two airframe mechanic and aircraft maintenance p | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| Workforce Pipeline Partnerships - Stakeholders expressed support for developing workforce pipeline partnerships with universities, high schools, vocational schools, and early education programs in K-12 schools. University stakeholders noted that universit | Multiple or All Hazards | People | ||
| Black Hills Discovery Center and Meadowside Nature Center are certified Green Centers by the MAEOE. They support schools in Montgomery County Public Schools as they work to become Maryland Green Schools by providing curriculum-based field trips, sustainab | Multiple or All Hazards | Cultural and Community Services | ||
| Montgomery Parks has joined forces with Poolesville High School’s Global Ecology Magnet Program to establish an immersive environmental education hub at the new Royce Hanson Conservation Park. This initiative includes outdoor classrooms and field labs for | Multiple or All Hazards | Urban Landscape and Tree Canopy | ||
| DEP RainScapes designed and oversaw the creation of a teaching garden at the front of Rolling Terrace Elementary School, a Community School in Takoma Park, partnering with Nature Forward and MCPS on Earth Day 2025. These gardens and the canopy trees plant | Multiple or All Hazards | Urban Landscape and Tree Canopy |
