In this episode of AUHSD Future Talks, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Karen Cowe, CEO of Ten Strands and an education-industry executive with over 30 years of experience in sales and fund development, marketing, program design, professional learning, business development, and operations. Ten Strands’ goal is to raise environmental literacy by providing high-quality environment-based learning and hands-on education to all California K–12 students. Prior to joining Ten Strands, she was president and chief executive officer of Key Curriculum Press, an innovative and award-winning K–12 STEM publisher. During the talk, Karen discusses her drivers and the Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs, pronounced “eclipse”), which is a collaborative effort to educate the more than 400,000+ graduating high school students per year in California to become literate in climate change and environmental justice issues and solutions
