Workshops and Events Archive

Discovering Community: Students, Digital Media, and Place-Based Learning

June 21-25, 2010

Middlebury

This institute offers educators the opportunity to explore the power of field research as a means to facilitate student engagement with their home communities. Over the course of an intensive, week-long program, participants will work with cultural researchers, documentary media specialists, artists, and fellow educators in a learning environment that models an ethnographic approach to community inquiry. The institute brings together place as the context, sustainability as the goal, and service learning as the strategy.

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Workshops & Institutes Education for Sustainability (EFS) Institute

Tuesday-Thursday, August 3-5, 2010; 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Formal and non-formal educators nation-wide are using the idea of sustainability to connect student's learning experiences across the grades and disciplines so that they can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Join fellow PreK-12 educators to build strategies and skills for using sustainability to connect curriculum, campus practices, and community engagement.

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Project Seasons

Summer Workshop Monday-Friday, July 26-30, 2010; 9:00 am-4:00 pm

Discover exciting, interdisciplinary, and hands-on ways to enrich your science curriculum with easy-to-use activities on environmental and agricultural topics. This workshop is designed to increase science literacy and cultivate connections by tracing the food we eat and the clothes we wear back to the farm.

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Project Seasons In-Service & On-Farm Workshops

On-going 2010

Shelburne

Custom-designed to help teachers address science grade-level expectations and to facilitate farm education programs. One-day school visits by our staff Graduate level courses during school year One or multi-day consultations on your farm with you and/or your farm cooperative group.

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One-Day Workshops linked to School Programs

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Shelburne

Open to all educators who want to learn more about a specific subject, these workshops help to integrate our field trip topics with classroom work. If you're a homeschooling parent, farmer hosting schools on your farm, or you have a special interest in a topic, come learn from experts in the field. You'll also observe and model appropriate teaching methods and begin to develop assessment techniques.

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Principles & Promising Practices of Place-Based Education

June 24-26, 2010

Shelburne

Use your local community and environment as an integrating contect for teaching and take your students' place-based learning to another level. Discover how service-learning projects can enhance your community's understanding of place.

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Teaching Towards a Better Future (3 graduate credits)

TH, F July 22-23, M-F July 26-30, 2010, 9:00 am-3:00 pm

Winooski

This course will give K-12 educators the opportunity to consider ways that our local, natural and built environments can serve as sites for inquiry and civic engagement as well as content and skill acquisition. Teachers will work with guest presenters and each other in a variety of settings to explore models that integrate the arts, student voice and social justice. In an interactive, experiential process we will explore a wide range of practices (from curriculum ideas that deepen content learning (i.e. learn science or social studies in a more engaging and meaningful way) to educating for sustainability where students actively ask and answer questions in the context of real-world issues and work to find solutions. PLEASE NOTE: Course will include numerous field site visits to a variety of places. (Please notify the instructor of any physical limitations.)

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Promise of Place and New England Environmental Education Alliance Conference

October 21-23, 2010

Lake Morey, Vermont

NEEEA and Promise of Place join together in October 2010 to bring the best of both conferences to Vermont.

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Community Works Institute on Service-Learning

Monday-Friday, July 19-23, 2010; 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Shelburne Farms

The Institute provides K-16 teachers, community educators, and administrators with training, models, strategies, and resources for developing service learning and sustainability as an integrated feature of curriculum with clear links to standards.

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Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids

August 6, 2010 9-4:30

Burlington

Do you want your students to be actively engaged in making a difference in their community? Does using the community as a teacher resonate with your teaching style? If YES!, then join us for this exciting, engaging, and innovative workshop.

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