Adapt and enhance completed integrations of sustainability

Purpose: Improve and deepen the integration formed within the department.

Process: Departments will reflect on the full process from understanding to evaluating and identify any opportunities for improvements.

Outcomes: The nature of the adapt and enhance stage is going to be very different for every department. This may include closing gaps identified in the evaluate stage, addressing challenges and barriers in the process, or deepening understanding of or connection to sustainability in the discipline, especially as broader sustainability issues, topics, and concepts change over time. Any identified change in the process may have implications for other steps. For example, a new, deeper understanding of sustainability may change the nature of connections to sustainability within the discipline, with implications for integration and evaluation. Alternatively, feedback from evaluation may identify other opportunities for connection and integration. This will lead to reviewing and iterating on the full process, as sustainability continues to grow and evolve.

Resources: Find available supports in the CTE, Sustainability office, and with peers that can help inspire and develop future iterations of your integration. Resources available in other steps of the process may be helpful as well, as you review opportunities to improve or better manage barriers.

Guiding Questions:

  1. What are the barriers to the successful integration?
  2. How can we continue to advance sustainability in this discipline?
framework for sustainability curriculum integration with adapt and enhance bolded

Resources

Reflection Guide

Summary: A series of questions to prompt discussion and thinking within the department when considering the results of integrating relevant sustainability knowledge, skills, and values and identifying next steps for sustainability integration. This will review topics the outcomes of sustainability integrations and identify opportunities to improve or form deeper connections.

Purpose: This resource will help guide discussion and thinking to identify next steps.

Link to the resource

Future Resources

Future versions of the toolkit will have reflection guides to lead thinking and group discussion. If you have relevant resources and guides to share, or are interested in developing these, please reach out.