STEM and Sustainability Education Graduate Certificate

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04.24.2025

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05.12.2025

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The STEM and Sustainability Education Certificate provides a background in the foundation of integrated STEM instruction and sustainability education. Our program empowers educators to incorporate STEM and Sustainability learning opportunities into a range of settings, from formal classrooms to informal community spaces. Through community-based local-to-you learning and solutions-driven courses, program participants will develop ready-to-implement curricular activities, and be ready to adopt rapidly changing science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), and sustainability content.

Why Study STEM and Sustainability Education?

The STEM and Sustainability Education Certificate provides students with a skill set to:

Improve proficiency in core content and cross-disciplinary knowledge in STEM and sustainability with competencies rooted in problem-solving, critical thinking, digital literacy, and innovation.
Strengthen cultural competence of the moral and ethical considerations of STEM education by cultivating social-emotional awareness and engaging community assets to build equitable educational environments for diverse student populations.
Promote resilient and adaptable skill development for students and educators to better navigate increasingly uncertain instructional and career settings.
Strengthen core subject knowledge to construct lessons that contextualize the content with cross-disciplinary knowledge, sustainability, and local to global problem-solving.
Become proficient in evidence-based practices and skills in monitoring student development to enhance learning and make curriculum adjustments when necessary.

Program Highlights

Earn Your Degree on Your Time 100% Online
Graduate in One Year
Receive Personalized Start-to-Graduation Support
Professional Development Rates Available
Practitioner Based Learning
Option to apply course credits toward Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction Program

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