Research and Reports

  • Nolan, E., Korb, M., Parada, I., Hayes, K., Harris, E., & Garbesi, K. (2026, Apr 19-22. Roundtable). Expanding Climate Education Using a Networked Improvement Community: A Case Study. National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Seattle, WA.
    https://narst.org/conferences/2026-annual-conference
  • Parada, I., Nolan, E., Hayes, K., (April 17, 2026). INTERDISCIPLINARY CLIMATE CHANGE TEACHING IN PRACTICE [Poster presentation]. 2026 Opportunities for Student Scholarship, Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR) Student Showcase, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States.
  • Hayes, K., Harris, E, Nolan, E., Garbesi, K. (2026, April 8-12). Disturbing the Grammar of Schooling: An Ecological Analysis of Interdisciplinary Climate Change Education in a Middle School. [Roundtable] American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA). Los Angelas, CA.
  • Hayes, K., Nolan, E., Harris, E., Gibson, A., Bueno, A., Korb, M., Riaz, A., Sandoval, L., & Garbesi, K. (2024). Learning goals for a just climate future: Research report. California State University, East Bay: Scholarworks. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12680/xs55mm66n
  • Nolan, E., Johnson, S., Hayes, K., Harris, E., & Garbesi, K. (Manuscript submitted). Interdisciplinary learning goals for 21st-century climate education. Climate Literacy in Education.
  • Nolan, E., Korb, M., Parada, I., Hayes, K., Harris, E., & Garbesi, K., (April 19-22, 2026). Expanding climate education using a Networked Improvement Community: A case study. 2026 Annual International Conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Seattle, WA, and online.
  • Garbesi, K., Hayes, K., Harris, E., & Korb, M. (2025) How University Faculty Facilitated a Schoolwide Climate Education Initiative that Transformed a Highly Challenged Middle School and Galvanized a District
  • Harris, E., Lai, P., Garbesi, K., Hiester, P., & Lai, E. (2025). Turning Tides: Design of an Interdisciplinary Climate Change Unit for Healing, Engagement, and Agency. Science Scope, 48(4), 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/08872376.2025.2505838
  • Parada, I., Nolan, E., Hayes, K., (April 18, 2025). COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY-DRIVEN CLIMATE CHANGE TEACHING [Poster presentation]. 2025 Opportunities for Student Scholarship, Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR) Student Symposium, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States.
  • Ivy, N., McClure, E., & Wright, N. (2025). From Adoption to Initial Implementation: Climate Literacy Journeys from Fremont, Berkeley & Hayward. Bay Area Climate Literacy Exchange. Oakland, CA.
  • Gomez, R., Hiester, P., Reardon-Jackson, C., & Wright, N. (2025). Building a Climate Activist Community in Middle School. Bay Area Climate Literacy Exchange. Oakland, CA.
  • Karina Garbesi, Kathryn Hayes, Emily Harris, Michele Korb, Eric Nolan, and Edgar Chavez (May 2025), Leveraging Community Partnerships to Support Climate Empowerment Education, Community Voices in PK-12 Climate and Environmental Education (Zine). Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs). Available online.
  • Garbesi,K., Hiester, P., Sandoval, L., Watson, L., and Gunn, J. (Oct. 23, 2024). Special Feature - CELI Grant Showcase. HUSD Board of Education Meeting.
  • Garbesi, K., Hayes, K., Nolan, E., Hiester, P., Sandoval, L., Chavez, E., Korb, M. (May 3, 2024). Facilitating PK-12 Climate Education that is Equity-Centered, Science-Grounded and Solutions-Oriented. UC-CSU Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs) Annual Forum Symposium.
  • Hayes, K., Harris, E., Nolan, E., Hiester, P., & Garbesi, K. (March 17-20, 2024). Developing school-wide climate justice curriculum in a progressive context: Affordances of a social-ecological lens. National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference (NARST). Denver, CO.
  • Garbesi, K. A (February 15, 2024). CELI Community Partners: A presentation work in progress to the Hayward Area Local Committee (HLAC). HLAC facilitates collaboration between the City of Hayward, the Hayward Unified School District, and the Hayward Area Recreation and Parks District.
  • Nolan, E., Korb, M., Hayes, K., Harris, E. Garbesi, K., (2024, November 5-6). Transdisciplinary climate justice education using a Networked Improvement Community approach. North American Association for Environmental Educators (NAAEE) Annual Research Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Harris, E., Hayes, K., Nolan, E., Gibson, A., Bueno, A., Korb, M., Riaz, A., & Garbesi, K. (2023, December 11). In the face of an uncertain climate future, what knowledge, skills, and orientations do students need? A co-designed framework for climate justice learning outcomes. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference, San Francisco, CA, United States.
  • K. Garbesi and E Helgren (2022). Sustainability in the Classroom and Community: Environmental Pedagogy and Outreach. Earth Day Symposium, Cal State East Bay.
  • Karina Garbesi, Jesse Gunn, and Jose Gonzalez (2022). Special Feature - CELI Grant Showcase. HUSD Board of Education Meeting.
  • Hayes, K., Nolan, E., Garbesi, K., & Harris, E. (2022). How do we facilitate multi-disciplinary, school wide approaches to climate justice education?  Roundtable at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) 2022 Annual Conference. Tucson, AZ.
  • CELI Chavez Research Report: Fall 2022 – Spring 2023.  
  • CELI Tennyson Research Report: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023.