Cloud Institute
The mission of The Cloud Institute is to ensure the viability of sustainable communities by leveraging changes in K-12 School Systems to prepare young people for the shift toward a sustainable future.
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education is dedicated to the vital role of education in creating awareness, fostering commitment, and guiding actions toward a healthy, secure and sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations.
We monitor the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability and transform them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it an in entirely new way.
We are the premier organization that equips schools systems k-12 and their communities with the core content, competencies and habits of mind that characterize education for a sustainable future. We do this by inspiring teachers and engaging students through meaningful content and student-centered instruction.
We believe that k-12 education can substantially influence beliefs, attitudes, values and behaviors related to sustainability. This is the most fertile ground for helping to shape a society committed to sustainable development.
The goal of sustainability education is to develop in young people and their teachers new knowledge and new ways of thinking needed to achieve economic prosperity, participate democratically, secure justice and equity, and all the while regenerate the health of the ecosystems, the gift upon which all life and production depend.
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education was created in response to the growing need for educational materials and professional development focused on sustainability. All of our programs and materials meet appropriate national and state content and performance standards as well as the corresponding achievement standards of the regional and state accrediting associations of the independent schools.
