Stone Soup Leadership Institute

Stone Soup Leadership Institute Platform

The Stone Soup Climate Education Curriculum is the only comprehensive platform dedicated to climate education and sustainable career pathways, to prepare all young people for well-paying blue and green jobs. The next generation deserves the best educational tools, and training, to help build a sustainable workforce and economy, and a more just, equitable, and sustainable future. We invite you to join with us! 

Climate Education

DEI, SEL & Leadership

Teacher Training

For MASS STEM Week we premiered our teacher training module for the Stone Soup Climate Education Curriculum. Future teachers designed customized lesson plans for their student teaching assignments. “I learned that climate change education can be implemented across disciplines, from science to history and English and that structuring climate change education is limitless,” said Shayla Flaherty, a future environmental science teacher. Learn More

Listen to teachers share their experience using the Stone Soup Climate Education Curriculum to inspire their students.

TEACHERS VIDEOS

Sustainable Career Pathways

The Institute is broadening educators and career counselors’ exposure to the increasing opportunities in the green economy by giving them tools to empower their students to pursue sustainable career pathways and green jobs. “Educators and guidance counselors are the gatekeepers and the folks who have the most power to influence high school students to pursue sustainable career pathways,” said the Institute’s Founding Director, Marianne Larned.

Case Studies: Massachusetts

For over 25 years, Massachusetts has been the Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s learning laboratory for our sustainable workforce initiatives. Our educational tools and trainings empower young people to become leaders of a more sustainable world. Founded on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in 1997, we’ve expanded our activities to communities across the state and around the world.

World Map

The Stone Soup Leadership Institute is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 1997. We develop educational tools and professional development (PD) training designed to educate young people to become leaders of a more sustainable world. For over 25 years, the Institute has boldly pioneered a disruptive education initiative to empower the next generation with the tools they need – from climate education to sustainable career pathways — for the transition to a sustainable economy. Recognized as a global leader in sustainable workforce development, the Institute has collaborated with business, government, education and community leaders to develop strategic initiatives, public-private partnerships and build sustainable communities around the world.