A Prestigious Award for Teach for Climate Justice

Choice Magazine has selected Teach for Climate Justice as “A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2024.” Choice Magazine is published by the American Library Association (ALA), which has 50,000 members, including librarians from public libraries, school libraries, and college and university libraries across the country. 

The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles list for 2024 reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice Magazine during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. This year’s list features 438 books and digital resources from 101 publishers. 

The list is quite selective: it contains approximately ten percent of some 5,000 works reviewed in Choice each year.  The list was known as Outstanding Academic Books until 2000. The new name reflects an increase in reviews of electronic products and Internet sites.

In awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the editors apply several criteria:

• overall excellence in presentation and scholarship

• importance relative to other literature in the field

• distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form

• originality or uniqueness of treatment

• value to undergraduate students

• importance in building undergraduate library collections

Here’s the Choice review of Teach for Climate Justice:

Beyond books merely addressing the issues underpinning environmental education, this interdisciplinary guide to promoting climate justice is perhaps the best education book this reviewer has read in a year. Roderick (independent scholar) places students and the community at the forefront of learning and teaching. The importance of cultivating a deep love of nature is the foundation of this book. The comprehensive strategy of fostering climate and social justice it presents is developmentally on target—and that is no small accomplishment. Topics like climate change, air pollution, land conservation, and biodiversity loss are inherently stressful issues to address in classrooms—even frightening for many students—and although this approach advocates deep understandings of these and other urgent issues, they are dealt with in a way that enhances community and promotes agency. The chapters are well sequenced, and notions of “active hope” and transformative grassroots approaches come on the heels of addressing these timely global challenges. Crossing the boundaries of policy, curriculum, and practice, this easily accessible book will be well received across a variety of contexts in K–16 education.

You can order the book here: Teach for Climate Justice.