Workshops and Events Archive

Workshops & Institutes New Institute on Education for Sustainability

Monday-Friday, July 30- August 3, 2012; 8:30 am-4:30 pm M-Th and 8:30-12:00 Friday

New Institute held at Shelburne Farms. Part workshop, part retreat, part conference.

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Project Seasons for Early Childhood Educators

Summer Workshop Monday-Friday, July 17-19, 2012; 9:00 am-4:00 pm

Enrich your science curriculum with exciting, interdisciplinary, hands-on, and 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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Community Works Institute on Service-Learning

Monday-Friday, July 16-20, 2012; 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Shelburne Farms

Join with colleagues from across North America and beyond, working to embrace service-learning and sustainability in their practice. CWI's Institute provides K-16 teachers, community educators, and administrators with training, models, strategies, and resources for developing service-learning and sustainability as an integrated curriculum. The Institute emphasize the use of service-learning best practices through engaging training with experienced practitioners, as well as through study groups, planning and reflection time. Veteran faculty and partners will share tools and experience throughout the week. Participants will develop an integrated service-learning instructional or site plan meeting their own unique needs. Opportunities for post-Institute support are available.

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Questing Workshop

June 18–22, 2012; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ladue, Missouri (St. Louis area)

Discover the remarkable stories and special places in your community as you build quests for your students. Clue-to-clue explorations guide students as they investigate the people and places that make your neighborhood unique. Along the way, they can meet a wide range of curriculum standards, including language, math, science and social studies. You will have plenty of opportunities to share ideas with colleagues, and leave with a quest developed and ready to try out with your students.

More information and registration form at http://www.litzsinger.org/profdev.html.

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One-Day Workshops linked to School Programs

On-Going

Shelburne, Vermont

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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Watershed for Every Classroom

Various dates in July and October, 2012; February and May, 2013

Vermont, New York, Quebec

A Watershed for Every Classroom (WEC) is a year-long professional development experience for educators in the Lake Champlain Basin (Vermont, New York and Quebec), brought to you by CBEI. It offers teachers inspiration, knowledge and skills to frame exciting watershed education.

2012-2013 Dates:
Monday-Friday, July 9-13 (with Thursday night overnight in Adirondacks);
Friday and Saturday, October 19-20 (with overnight in northern Basin);
Friday and Saturday, February 8-9 (with overnight option in Burlington);
Friday and Saturday, May 3-4 (with overnight in location TBA);

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