I'm Brian Lairr on WNYC and now our climate story of the week which we do every Tuesday

on the show and just in time for school to start a book about how educators can better

approach climate education in the classroom.

And of course it's not new to think about youth and connection to the climate movement

Greta Thunberg made global headlines with her school strike in 2018 which began the

movement Fridays for the future.

In the U.S., the youth led sunrise movement has been mobilizing young people around

climate change since 2017, most recently and as we've covered on the show, a group of

young people in Montana successfully won a lawsuit this summer against the state for

developing fossil fuel projects without considering their impact on the climate.

So how should some of the people closest to youth, their teachers, guide them in their

desire to take action?

Our guest today, Tom Roderick has some suggestions and interestingly his background is not in

climate science.

Tom Roderick was the founding director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social

Responsibility and a scene as a national leader in the area of social and emotional learning

for kids.

He also developed programs such as the Conflict Resolution One known as the Four R's,

Writing, Writing, Respect and Resolution.

He retired from the Morningside Center in 2018.

His new book is Teaching for Climate Justice.

Tom, thank you for joining us, welcome to WNYC.

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