Welcome to  GREEN LITERACY

LEAD Green Literacy is a leader of social change, aligning educational institutions with lifelong ecological stewardship.  

TRANSFORM Green Literacy's programs transform young people's relationship with the environment by empowering them to become environmental leaders through reading and writing and acting in sustainable ways.

CREATE Green Heroes is our best-selling, five-starred, literacy-based curriculum rooted in environmental social justice with outcomes to create local, community-centered sustainable connections. 

​Green Literacy Programs

Green Literacy Programs are bridges for schools, nature and community organizations, and corporations who want to create lasting sustainable change though connecting to literacy and local ecology

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What We Do
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We align a literacy based environmental curriculum specific to your organization's needs.

We create another layer of community with engagement activities that guide your organization's young people into issues about environmental social justice issues through reading and writing.

We connect your organization with a local, ecological partner to help create a  sustainable
eco-action project in your organization's area. 

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Our Programs Include

Youth Workshops
Skype Visits  
Virtual Gardening
Educator Insevice
Consulting
​Speaking Engagements
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Our Results

Student

• Increase Critical Thinking
• Stronger Reading Appreciation 
• Higher Levels of Engagement and Self-Motivation
• Focus on Social and Emotional Skills
• Self Identification as Environmental Leader

Educators

• Teach with CCSS Aligned Curriculum that foster Student Agency.
• Builds in Data Collection 
• Creates Community Stakeholders
• Collaboration with Other Teachers
• Consistent & Higher Parent Involvement

Previous & Current Relationships & Clients

Who We Are​

Green Literacy was created and founded by Jen Cullerton Johnson and Mary Gove. For the past decade, they have taught, spoken, and facilitated workshops, seminars, and lectures about empowering young people to become environmental leaders. Dedicated and passionate, they have brought Green Literacy into classrooms, schools, corporations, and faith based organizations. Various organizations have recognized them for their contributions to empowering youth to become environmental leaders. 

Jen Cullerton Johnson, MFA, MEd. is the author of the award-winning children's book Seeds of Change. She is the teacher who helped found  the Karma Garden, a collaborative community garden for incarcerated youth at Cook County Juvenile Detention Center. She is a practicing teacher at Chicago Public Schools and an adjunct writing professor at Wright College. www.jencullertonjohnson.com

Mary K. Gove, Phd is an Emeritus professor at Cleveland State University and is co-author of a leading best selling textbook, Reading and Learning to Read (Pearson), in its 9th edition, which has been in undergraduate and graduate classroom use for over twenty-five years. She has spearheaded several grants to work with teachers in schools on Green Literacy.