On Thursday morning, May 17th, the entire school community and stakeholders from the local town convened a Global Climate Change Summit. A thread that ran through the summit was the showing of excerpts from the film, Nobelity.
The high point of the day was a presentation by an 8th grade student inspired by Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. This 8th grader at the age of 14 was the youngest of one thousand trained directly by Al Gore to spread the essential learnings from Inconvenient Truth. The student was more polished and had better materials than most adult presenters. The arguments were compelling. Unfortunately, I don't have the time right now to list what I learned from the summit. I'll make that the topic for a future entry. In the meantime, check out the links and think about how this summit was an example of civic action.
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