Teach Climate Education with Open MIT Resources

Sylvia Scharf is a Climate Education Specialist. She focuses on teacher use of ESI’s public-facing materials, especially the podcast TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) and the MIT Climate Portal.

Before joining the ESI team, Sylvia was at New England Aquarium, where she honed her climate change communication skills with teachers, teens, staff, and the general public. Her favorite projects focused on climate resilience, the history of Boston Harbor, and the use of maps and graphics in public communication. She holds a Masters in Environmental Education from Antioch University New England and a Bachelors in Biology from Smith College.

A born-and-bred New Englander with Southwest roots, Sylvia can often be found in the woods or exploring the coast with her wife and child.

Curt Newton is Director of MIT OpenCourseWare, a free and open collection of materials from thousands of MIT courses used by millions of learners and educators around the world. His personal mission is to put open education in service of equitable climate action. At MIT, he currently serves on the institute's climate education working group, and previously helped build the ClimateX online resource which became the MIT Climate portal. As a citizen, Curt facilitates community games and workshops with the Climate Interactive En-ROADS simulator, is a volunteer leader in the Boston Green New Deal Coalition and 350 Mass, and lives in a net-zero energy retrofit home.