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Kimi Waite, Ph.D.
@kimiwaite.bsky.social
🍃 Scholar-Activist & Author
🍎 Former STEM Teacher
✍🏼 Environmental & Climate Justice
💻 www.kimiwaite.com
#ClimateSky #EnvironmentalEd
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Hi #EduSky! If you’re a teacher, administrator, curriculum specialist, or professor, and you want to know more about teaching climate change, check out our award winning book, available on Corwin.com, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble! www.corwin.com/books/teachi...
What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change
The book gives busy teachers the tools they need to incorporate climate change education across disciplines and align the content with existing standa...
www.corwin.com
Honored to be the #1 “Hot New Release” in Science & Technology Teaching Materials on Amazon! Pre-order “Teaching Environmental Justice in the Elementary Classroom: Entry Points for Equity Across the K-5 Curriculum” now w/ MIT Press Bookstore and Amazon. #environmentaljustice
December 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Kimi Waite, Ph.D.
Instead of asking what to buy kids, think about what new information and skills they can be taught.
Beyond Books: Libraries Are Climate-Resilient Community Infrastructure
Libraries are indispensable not only for climate and informational literacy but also as valuable hubs for creating community solutions to our planet’s most pressing problems.
www.commondreams.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Check out my article in Common Dreams: “Beyond Books: Libraries Are Climate-Resilient Community Infrastructure”
December 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Why should we teach environmental justice in schools? Author Kimi Waite says students need to know how pollution and racism collide in their communities — and what they can do about it.
wordinblack.com/2025/12/case...
The Case for Teaching Environmental Justice in Schools
Students need the truth about how pollution and racism collide in America.
wordinblack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Pre-order for my new book, “Teaching Environmental Justice in the Elementary Classroom: Entry Points for Equity Across the K-5 Curriculum” is now available through MIT Press Bookstore. Publication in Feburary 2026! #EduSky mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781041...
Teaching Environmental Justice in the Elementary Classroom: Entry Points for Equity Across the K-5 Curriculum (Equity and Social Justice in Education)
This timely book discusses the importance of teaching environmental justice at the elementary level and provides teachers with the tools to implement this instruction in their existing curriculum. It ...
mitpressbookstore.mit.edu
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My article was just published in The New Educator Journal: “Integrating Zines as a Pedagogical Tool for Multicultural Education and Social Justice.”

Learn more about my zine praxis. 50 free copies are also available on my website! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #EduSky
Integrating Zines as a Pedagogical Tool for Multicultural Education and Social Justice
Zines are do-it-yourself, self-published booklets with a long history of use as tools for activism in social movements, often featuring content rooted in fandoms, interest groups, social identities...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Kimi Waite, Ph.D.
🗞️ FEATURE: Union educators across California are organizing to protect students from ICE raids and federal attacks. Together we fight back to keep classrooms safe and every student protected.
✊ Read more: https://bit.ly/42666ot
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Kimi Waite, Ph.D.
With Climate Week NYC just around the corner, Climate Generation is spotlighting events centering frontline and BIPOC leadership open to the public! Whether you are tuning in from across the nation or are in NYC, we hope these events educate, motivate, and inspire you!
https://bit.ly/4pfHnYR
Climate Generation’s Guide to Climate Week NYC 2025
With Climate Week NYC 2025 just around the corner, Climate Generation is thrilled to spotlight events centering frontline and BIPOC leadership, all open to the public! Whether you are tuning in from a...
climategen.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hi #EduSky! If you’re a teacher, administrator, curriculum specialist, or professor, and you want to know more about teaching climate change, check out our award winning book, available on Corwin.com, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble! www.corwin.com/books/teachi...
What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change
The book gives busy teachers the tools they need to incorporate climate change education across disciplines and align the content with existing standa...
www.corwin.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hey educators! Check out our article, “Local History and Community Science in Olongapo, Philippines: A Framework for Teachers,” (Waite, De Castro, Reyes, Battad, 2025), now published in The Geography Teacher! Free copies below. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TNPXC... #Edusky #communityscience
Local History and Community Science in Olongapo, Philippines: A Framework for Teachers
Published in The Geography Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Our book, “What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change: An Educator’s Guide to Nurturing Hope and Resilience (Grades K-12)” published by @corwinpress.bsky.social, received a 2025 APEX Annual Awards for Publication Excellence! www.corwin.com/about/press-...
Corwin receives two awards at APEX 2025
www.corwin.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’m excited to be presenting at the Teach Climate Network’s Summer Institute this year.

🗓️ When: July 14-17
📍 Where: Virtual with regional cohort days July 16-17
🔗 Register now: [https://climategen.org/summer-institute/]

#SI2025 #TeachClimate #TeachClimateNetwork #Teachers #ClimateEducation
Join Climate Generation and @thenaaee.bsky.social at the Summer Institute, an inspiring & transformative event created for educators by educators. Select from 30+ workshops, connect with educators, and boost your curriculum with dozens of trusted resources! 🍎

Register climategen.org/summer-insti...
Teacher Professional Development - Summer Institute
Climate Generation's three-day Summer Institute for Climate Change Education provides teacher professional development and community.
climategen.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Honored to have served on the Notable Social Studies Trade Book Committee for 3 years, and now I’m on the The Carter G. Woodson Book Award Committee. My favorite book was “Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known,” by George M. Johnson. #kidlit
📣 Announcing this year’s Carter G. Woodson, Septima P. Clark, and Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray Book Award recipients—honoring powerful stories that confront anti-Asian racism, illuminate Indigenous and queer histories, and celebrate pioneering women: hubs.li/Q03mCF-q0 #TLSky #kidlit
June 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Reposted by Kimi Waite, Ph.D.
A nice article on climate change education at the early elementary level, with comments from Kottie Christie-Blick and Kimi Waite. Thanks, Caroline Preston! #climatesky
‘Why is the sky fuzzy?’: Climate change lessons need to start as early as preschool  - The Hechinger Report
Hello! I’m traveling back from the Bright Start International Conference where I spent the last few days learning about early childhood policies, systems and best practices worldwide. This week’s news...
hechingerreport.org
December 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Reposted by Kimi Waite, Ph.D.
1/2: "What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change delivers on the promise of its title."
What Teachers Want to Know About Teaching Climate Change
The book gives busy teachers the tools they need to incorporate climate change education across disciplines and align the content with existing standa...
www.corwin.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM