CE’s Clean Energy Fellows program is designed to utilize the expertise of educators who live and work in a community.
The program aims to provide justice-centered, career-focused education and eliminate barriers unrelated to students’ actual potential for success so that all students can participate in, benefit from, and lead in a climate-smart future.
Through a framework of professional development, symbiotic industry-education partnerships, and hands-on learning collaboration, the CE Team works with each Clean Energy Fellow to design customized objectives for regional impact.
Three New Cohorts Opening for 2024-2025
CE launched three new cohorts of Clean Energy Fellows for the 2024-2025 school year, following a two-week Leadership Institute in August.
Each of these cohorts is focused on aligning the needs of CE partners and communities to deliver the highest impact with the highest likelihood of longevity. More information on current cohorts can be found below.
While we are not currently accepting applications, we invite you to indicate your interest here, and we will contact you when our application window opens or connect to discuss how you can engage with existing cohorts.
Clean Energy Pacific Northwest Power Grid Cohort
APPLICATION CLOSED
This cohort, consisting of leaders from across the Pacific Northwest, finds ways to reimagine how educators can build student access to and influence within the local energy landscape by developing a customized Action Plan to strengthen the clean energy talent ecosystem. Each Clean Energy Fellow creates unique programming that leverages community relationships, regional energy resources, localized energy and justice challenges, and industry expertise. Through this process, they create robust, context-driven engagements for their schools and other education organizations.
Clean Energy Fellows Pacific Northwest Offshore Wind Cohort
APPLICATION CLOSED
This cohort, consisting of leaders from across Washington and Oregon is tasked with reviewing and refining innovative and equitable tools for engaging students in the rapidly innovating Pacific Northwest offshore wind energy sector. Primarily taking the form of curriculum development and assessment, this process leverages the expertise of regional industry leaders, natural resource management groups, as well as the localized educational knowledge of Fellows to broaden public understanding of the critical role that offshore wind technologies play across the region in shaping the economy both past and present and what the future of this industry will look like. This project emphasizes equitable, values-driven stakeholder inclusion, offering students the opportunity to engage with varying community perspectives to draw their own conclusions about the roles of new technologies in coastal communities and their potential impacts.
Clean Energy Fellows Seattle Energy Ecosystem Cohort
APPLICATION CLOSED
This cohort of Washington leaders finds ways to reimagine the structures in place in their region for building student access to and influence on the clean energy economy. Each Fellow or Fellow pair harnesses the expertise of their local clean energy workforce, building insights into ongoing opportunities for their students to enter wealth-generating careers in the clean energy workforce by developing an Action Plan to facilitate student engagement for their learners as the emerging workforce of their region.
Eligibility Requirements
- Clean Energy Fellows must be employed educators (classroom or out-of-school time) or district support staff.
- Clean Energy Fellows must service students specific to cohort geography.
- Clean Energy Fellows in the PNW Power Grid and PNW Offshore Wind cohorts must serve students within customer-owned utility territory (Bonneville Power Administration service area) in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or Montana. Am I in within a customer-owned utility territory?
- Educators can apply individually or in pairs
- The ideal Clean Energy Fellow will have:
- A role serving students from minoritized identities in STEM (BIPOC, Latine/x, LGBTQ+, women) or rural populations
- Demonstrated knowledge of career-connected learning strategies
- Experience in curriculum design or educational leadership
- Strong knowledge of and some experience in teaching three-dimensional STEM as modeled by the Next Generation Science Standards
- Experience and training in pedagogical approaches that support equitable learning and a personal commitment to equity and justice that includes an honest examination of their own identity and role in current systems
- Awareness of successful approaches to PD in their district
- Awareness of possible community connections around energy development, industry, and utility presence in your region