trubel&co, a leader in data-driven civic and climate education, has developed CivicScape, an innovative platform that equips educators to bring local, relevant, and data-informed learning into their classrooms, transforming public climate and civic data into classroom-ready, place-based lessons with no technical background required.

Through our expert-designed platform and AI Co-Pilot, teachers can quickly design standards-aligned lessons using local datasets on heat, flooding, air quality, housing, and cultural heritage. Students engage in interactive mapping and data storytelling, transforming neighborhood data into insights that drive civic action and environmental stewardship. This session highlights trubel&co’s leadership in bridging the gap between complex scientific data and accessible classroom practice, ensuring educators are empowered to advance climate literacy, place-based learning, and 21st-century skills.

Session objectives include:

• Showcase trubel&co’s methodology for translating complex climate and civic data into classroom-ready activities that build student civic and environmental literacy.
  Provide teachers with practical tools and strategies to integrate local datasets into standards-aligned lessons in diverse educational contexts.
• Identify research and practice gaps in place-based climate education that CivicScape helps to address

Attendees will leave with actionable frameworks, lesson ideas, and insights from trubel&co’s extensive experience in scaling data civics across schools. This work directly aligns with ESIP’s theme, “Bridging Divides: Data, Technology, Community,” by demonstrating how expert-led educational innovation can connect open data, technology, and community knowledge to advance climate literacy, cultural heritage awareness, and civic engagement.