Below is the program schedule for the 2026 Sustainability Showcase at Teachers College.
Round One
Seoul, 1/24 Second: A City Symphony Across Time
Gyuri Bae
The Tragedy of the Commons Told Through the Unicorn’s Horn
Chalisa Kaewla
Embodied Pedagogy as Countercultural Practice: Imagining English Beyond Technocracy
Merit O'Hare
From Commitment to Practice: Advancing Sustainability in the VPA Division at Teachers College
Akesia Phillip-Bryan
From Seeds to Sprouts: Environmental & Social-Emotional Learning Approaches for Enhancing Wellbeing and Community Creation
Rose Rana & Sophie Raimondo Schmid
Feeding the Teenage Brain: Gut–Brain Axis Mechanisms Linking Diet Quality to Cognitive Control and Mental Health
DeMaris Richardson
Bridging Educational Divides: A Research-Practice Partnership to Empower Teachers to Integrate Climate Change across Subjects
Christina Torres, Oren Pizmony-Levy
Weaving Sustainability: An Art-Based Research Approach to Community
Qianyu Zhou
Round Two
Climate Change through Oceanography for K-5
Jacquelyn Duran, Alison Matthews, Nina Borland, & Sarah Duer
How Campus Spaces for Sustainability Bring TC Together
Elizabeth Greenlee & Gabriel Salas
Invisible Barriers in Sustainability Education
Haewon Jang
Youth as Designers of Embodied Participatory Simulations: Negotiating Shared Visions of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting for Sustainability
Tessaly Jen, Corey Brady, & Lauren Vogelstein
STEM Climate Education in Global Perspective: Comparative Lessons for Indonesia from Singapore, South Korea, and the United States
Anna Rahmadianty & Pramita Cucu Mawarni
Building Ecological Presence: Towards a Dynamic Framework of Environmental Justice
Colby Tofel-Grehl & Tyler Hansen
How the Modern Restaurant Became a Microcosm for Neoliberal Performance
Kris Walker
Round Three
Understanding the Energy Cost of Text-to-Image Generation
Minne Atairu
Storied Seeds with the Body-Ecology Lab (BEL)
OreOluwa Badaki
Lighting the Way: School Solarization and Learning Outcomes in Rural Pakistan
Ushna Fawad
Bottom-Up or Top-Down? How the Source of Climate Change Education Initiatives Shapes Educators’ Motivation and Action
Oren Pizmony-Levy
Centering The First Salmon Ceremony as a Pedagogical Model for Transformative Sustainability Education
Katherine Plager
Where Peace Meets Sustainability: Teaching the Climate–Nuclear Nexus
Kentaro Shintaku
Education as Liberation: Community Sustainability Learning at the Gatehouse Garden
Isabella Trezza