Community Educator

Positives

• Selena Ligrano shares candid insight into the career path that will help students decide if community education is something they are interested in pursuing.
• The resource emphasizes the importance of following your passion in your career choice.

Additional Prerequisites

• The Garden Hotline link on page three is broken.
• Some students, especially English language learners, may need the terms prerequisite, horticulture, ecology, networking, and others defined before reading the article.

Differentiation

• Students can identify organizations in their area that, similar to Tilth, are working in community education related to climate change.
• Using Selena Ligrano as an example, students can journal about their work experiences and passions and how these might fit with this career or other green career paths.
• English language arts classes can use this resource to practice reading informational text.
• Social studies classes can use this resource to discuss career paths as a means to solve societal problems like climate change.
• Classes with limited time or students with low reading stamina can read the narrative as a class and assign sections of the article as a jigsaw activity.