Call for Applicants
This is a local opportunity to learn how to teach your students and train teachers about air quality and climate science in the Baltimore-Washington region during the 2026-2027 school year.
Become a Lead Teacher and join our Learning Community!
Clean Air Partners invites you to apply to become a Lead Teacher.
Here is what you will do–
Lead Teachers may be paid for--
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attending a summer learning session
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during the school year--
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teaching and providing feedback about one activity in your classroom
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training your colleagues on one activity and collecting feedback from them
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participating in regular but very brief check-in meetings and a debrief focus group
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There are two activities per module that you will learn how to teach during the summer learning session.
See below for access.
Module 1: Our Lungs, Our Air, Our Health
Module 2: What's the Air Forecast?
Module 3: Air Pollution in the Community
Module 4: Air and the Chesapeake Bay
Module 5: Air and Climate Change
Additional Lead Teacher Files:
Teaching Feedback Form
You complete this form after each activity you teach to your students.
Your colleagues complete this form after you train them. Submitting the form generates a link to a PD credit form teachers can make a copy, complete and submit to their HR department.
Teacher Training Presentation Template
Make a copy and modify for your teacher training.
How the Lead Teacher Learning Community benefits you–
Here is how to apply:
Click here for the teacher application. Submit your responses by midnight on June 12, 2026.
Click here for the memorandum of understanding. Make a copy, read, sign, date, and share your copy with airqualityeducation@gmail.com by midnight on June 12, 2026.
If you have any questions or concerns, then please email Elizabeth Spike, Education Program Manager, at espike@cleanairpartners.net.
