About This Substack
This Substack is for teachers who want to build meaningful, sustainable learning—but aren’t sure where to begin, or how to make it work over time.
Sustainability in education is often presented as disconnected activities or an overwhelming set of ideas. Many teachers are left to piece things together on their own, without clear structure or direction.
This space is designed to change that.
Rather than offering a fixed curriculum, this Substack offers a set of ideas, lenses, and approaches for thinking about how sustainability learning can take shape, deepen, and become a lasting part of teaching practice.
What You’ll Find Here
This work focuses on helping you:
Make sense of sustainability in an educational context
Turn complex ideas into usable classroom approaches
Build confidence starting from wherever you are
Develop learning that is coherent, not fragmented
Sustain this work over time without constant reinvention
You won’t find rigid lesson plans or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Instead, you’ll find frameworks, examples, and guidance you can adapt to your own context.
Who This Is For
This Substack is primarily for:
K–12 teachers
It is also relevant for:
Teacher educators
Instructional coaches and school leaders
Those shaping programs, curriculum, or policy at a systems level
About My Work
I’m Kyle Bartlett, an education researcher and strategist with a PhD in education, specializing in sustainability and learning design.
My work draws on experience across K–12 classrooms and system-level advising, and focuses on helping organizations and educators make sense of complex ideas and turn them into clear, usable frameworks, curriculum, and strategy.
In short, I help turn complicated ideas into something people can actually use.
A Note on Approach
Good ideas are not enough.
For sustainability learning to matter, it has to be:
Clear
Coherent
Practical
Sustainable for teachers to implement over time
That requires more than content—it requires structure, language, and design.
This is what this work is trying to provide.
If This Resonates
If you’re trying to make sense of sustainability in your teaching, or support others in doing so, you’re in the right place.
You don’t need to have it all figured out to begin.
This is a place to build that work in ways that fit your context.
