Overview
Action Plan Development and Strategic Priorities: The Clean Energy Fellows program is intended to allow for deep, thoughtful, locally relevant, and culturally specific plans around energy career pathways be developed in a way that ensures 10-year longevity for new programming. To accomplish this, Fellows will develop comprehensive action plans that select specific methodologies for deliver new opportunities for young people to engage in this work in their region. Each Fellow’s or region’s Action Plan will look different, selecting unique engagements and strategies that align to pre-existing efforts and realities. To facilitate the development of these plans, CE will ask that Fellows align their plans to the following strategic priorities:
- (Mission-Oriented): The Action Plan broadens access to student participation in the clean energy economy.
- (Equity-Driven): The Action Plan is culturally relevant for the region served and addresses the realities of local equity needs.
- (Self-Sustaining): The Action Plan has structures in place that target a longevity of at least 10 years for their programming.
- (Change-Multiplying): The Action Plan amplifies the impact of local educator leaders within the Fellow’s region.
- (Partner-Informed): The Action Plan involves continuous inroads for collaboration between teacher Fellow and critical regional partners (industry, educational, and community groups and organizations).
Details and Example Outcomes
CE has worked with thousands of teachers over the years to implement high-impact renewable energy educational programming in their regions. Below, each action plan has been aligned with examples of potential outcomes for teachers to pursue to achieve the mission of the program. Note: these are not the only routes that Fellows can take, and they may combine varying targets or take an entirely unique approach to achieving these objectives as long as the alignment remains strong.
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Description: A key component of the Clean Energy Fellows program is to make energy careers more visible and expand how regional consumers engage with their energy resources. An Action Plan developed in this program should be geared toward expanding topic engagement, building regional student/consumer capacity to influence their local energy economy, and ensuring that there are established systems for upholding Pre-K-to-career pipelines into energy-linked careers. | |
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2. The Action Plan is culturally relevant for the region served and addresses the realities of local equity needs. | |
Description: Core to CE’s mission is the involvement of ALL students and communities in the transformation of the energy economy. This means that regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnic background, gender, home language, geographic placement, and other critical factors, every student in the targeted population and/or region must have inroads to access the value of a Fellow’s Action Plan equitably. That does not simply mean that the same opportunity is provided to everyone, rather, the opportunities provided are critically responsive to the unique situation that every student faces and structures are shifted where needed to customize a Plan for these unique needs. | |
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Description: It is critical that the structures built by Fellows involved in this program are long-standing and self-sustaining. This requires incredibly thoughtful integration by the Fellow through buy-in of critical partners involved in implementation. It also necessitates that systems are in place that do not leave the initial Fellow as the main gatekeeper or implementer of this work, but that it is open source and readily available for a growing and changing participant base. | |
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Description: As a coordinator of deep regional change, Fellows will act as liaisons to additional change agents in their networks, building their own capacity to spread the impact of their long-term Action Plan goals. Fellows are expected to identify critical needs amongst their peers, providing them with support and professional development where necessary. CE will work with the Fellows not only to bolster their understanding of energy and grid modernization topics, but additionally best practices in delivering training both in-person and remotely. | |
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Description: The other three objectives would not be achievable at all without the consistent incorporation of partner insights and expertise into work conducted on the ground. Longstanding partnerships must be fostered from before the outset of an Action Plan and involve diverse voices from the community and region. There must additionally be space within this action plan for partnerships to adhere to sustained programming and evolve according to changes in needs. | |
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