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For Educators
Spring Programs for Educators!
Offered in collaboration with our partners, each workshop or series has a unique focus but all will inspire you to make purposeful place-based connections in your classroom and curriculum. And in 2021, we’re taking advantage of our virtual space to offer you a great variety of programs in different formats and at varying levels of commitment.
We hope you'll join us for one or more of the opportunities below. (Click on their titles to find out more). Come connect with your colleagues virtually and in place!
Indigenous Land Acknowledgements: What? Why? And Now What?
FEBRUARY 2, FEBRUARY 23, MARCH 9, Tuesday, 3:30 - 5:30PM
Throughout this three-part workshop series, we will address the history and purpose of land acknowledgments, examine our unique contexts, and support one another as we each craft a research-based, personalized and heartfelt land acknowledgement.
Who's Outside? Building an Anti-Racist Bookshelf
FEBRUARY 4, THURSDAY, 4:00-5:30PM
As we envision all children making meaningful connections to the natural world, explore how our bookshelves communicate intentional and unintentional messages about representation, stereotypes, and belonging. You’ll leave with tools and strategies to audit your own bookshelves.
De-Colonizing Place-Based Education
FEBRUARY 9, 3:30-5:00PM
Engage with us to question and unsettle our notions of place, colonization, and identity as we strive to decolonize our teaching practices. How do we experience and perpetuate colonization in our classrooms? What is the nature of our relationship to place as individuals and communities?
Collective Science and Stewardship with GLOBE: A 4-part series
MARCH 3, MARCH 24, MARCH 31, APRIL 3, Wednesdays (except April 3: Saturday), Times vary.
This exciting series explores the carbon cycle and climate change using community science, based on NASA’s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program, which supports educators in using its environmental data collection protocols designed for K-12 students.
Student Engagement & Youth Voice -Vermont Farm to School Network Webinar Series
MARCH 31, Wednesday, 3:00–4:30PM
Discover strategies and methods to invite students in as active members of the food system, and to engage them as decision-makers in their own learning. We’ll uncover where potential partnerships in schools already exist and how they can be leveraged to elevate project-based teaching.
See all our spring and summer professional learrning opportunities.
With thanks to all our partners who help make these programs possible: Gedakina, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education, Vermont Farm to School Network.