SLCC Presents: Parent Roundtable - Parenting through Climate Change

At the Silver Lake Center for Creativity Preschool, our seasonal Parent Roundtables are one of our most treasured events of the school year. They present an opportunity to gather as a community to discuss the latest data-informed practices to best support young children and parents. Given our most recent climate event in Los Angeles and the ever-salient concerns parents have about our warming planet, we have selected the topic of Parenting through Climate Change to guide our conversation for the forthcoming Parent Roundtable.

We are very excited to announce our guest speaker for the event, Anya Kamenetz. Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is The Golden Hour. She covered education as a journalist for many years including for NPR, where she also co-created the podcast Life Kit:Parenting in partnership with Sesame Workshop. Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change.

She’s the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books:

Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006)

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010)

The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized Testing, But You Don’t Have To Be (Public Affairs, 2016)

The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (Public Affairs, 2018)

The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022).

Kamenetz was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, won an Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation in 2017 along with the rest of the NPR Ed team, and the 2022 AERA Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award. She’s been a New America fellow, a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and a columnist for the Village Voice. She’s contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and been featured in documentaries shown on PBS, CNN, HBO and Vice. She frequently speaks on topics related to children, parenting, learning, technology, and climate to audiences including at Google, Apple, and Sesame, Aspen Ideas, SXSW, TEDx, Yale, MIT and Stanford.

Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

Needless to say, we are honored to have Anya with us to present some data-driven insights and offer informed and practical tools for having conversations with young children about the changing world. Anya will also help us navigate the many stressors we feel as parents during climate events and offer solution-oriented strategies. We are opening this roundtable up to the public across the globe. The event is free for the SLCC community and families who lost their homes in the recent LA fires. We hope you will join us!

Ticket holders will receive a Zoom link 24 hrs before the event date.