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Teachers, learn what’s outside your window, and how you can use it to engage kids in any subject. Gain an understanding of what’s affecting Houston’s prairies, forests and marshes. Discover resources to differentiate instruction for all learners, including tech options. Connect with local informal educators that are ready to help you. Join us virtually June 10 or June 15 (elementary and middle school) or June 11 (middle and high school). Sign up on Eventbrite; limited to first 20 participants. Three hours CPE and G/T credit available, with an option for six hours, through the Texas Association for Environmental Education.
Virtual Professional Development: How to Create a Community-Based Learning Experience for Students in Houston
Teachers, learn what’s outside your window, and how you can use it to engage kids in any subject. Gain an understanding of what’s affecting Houston’s prairies, forests and marshes. Discover resources to differentiate instruction for all learners, including tech options. Connect with local informal educators that are ready to help you.
Workshop limited to first 20 participants. Three hours CPE and G/T credit available, with an option for six hours, through the Texas Association for Environmental Education.
Teachers, learn what’s outside your window, and how you can use it to engage kids in any subject. Gain an understanding of what’s affecting Houston’s prairies, forests and marshes. Discover resources to differentiate instruction for all learners, including tech options. Connect with local informal educators that are ready to help you. Join us virtually June 10 or June 15 (elementary and middle school) or June 11 (middle and high school). Sign up on Eventbrite; limited to first 20 participants. Three hours CPE and G/T credit available, with an option for six hours, through the Texas Association for Environmental Education.
Teachers, learn what’s outside your window, and how you can use it to engage kids in any subject. Gain an understanding of what’s affecting Houston’s prairies, forests and marshes. Discover resources to differentiate instruction for all learners, including tech options. Connect with local informal educators that are ready to help you. Join us virtually June 10 or June 15 (elementary and middle school) or June 11 (middle and high school). Sign up on Eventbrite; limited to first 20 participants. Three hours CPE and G/T credit available, with an option for six hours, through the Texas Association for Environmental Education.
Join Texas Children in Nature and Special Guest Emily Weerts in this Best Practices Seminar.
nstitute Overview:Â This 6-day (15 hour) online institute will focus on Education for Sustainability: an interdisciplinary learning lens for integrating the Big Ideas of Sustainability into your curriculum, campus and community.
Audience:Â K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Non-formal Educators
Full Group Virtual Learning and Facilitated Lesson Planning: Participant assignments are connected to project- and place-based learning; exploring sustainability as a dynamic system characterized by the interconnectedness of environment, equity and economy; identifying the skills, knowledge and values/attitudes that promote health and well-being of current and future generations.
Highlights:Â
- Environmental Justice: Dr. Bertie Simmons, life-long dedicated educator in the Houston Independent School District. Her career included experiences as a teacher, elementary school principal, assistant superintendent, district superintendent, and high school principal. This highly sought public speaker has received many professional awards that include HEB’s Best High School Principal in Texas award and KHOU’s Spirit of Texas award.
- MIndfulness / Social Emotional Learning: Special Guest Speaker Susan Kaiser Greenland
- Systems Thinking, COVID-19 and Sustainable Communities: Special Guests TBA!
Takeaways:Â Â
- Gain knowledge of educating for sustainability from a community of learners and field experts
- Redesign a lesson, unit or project implementation planner with the integration of the Big Ideas of Sustainability
- Engage with various digital platforms to leverage student interactions for remote learning
- Help students understand the causes and consequences of social equity through the lens of environmental justice
- Explore a systems thinking approach to understanding the impact of COVID-19
Daily activities, coaching, and lesson planning toolkit accessible through the CELF Summer Institute Google Site
- Defining Sustainability: Thinking about how sustainability has changed and what it means to you now.
- Connecting the Big Ideas of Sustainability to your teaching practices and classroom/virtual lessons
- CELF-facilitated lesson planning work time
This teacher workshop has gone virtual. Check with event organizers for more information.
This teacher workshop has gone virtual! Check with the organizers for more information.
This event has been postponed until Summer, 2021.
Institute Overview: This 6-day (15 hour) online institute will enhance participants’ understanding of project-based learning and place-based education, principles and practices within the context of your school community modeling CELF’s Inquiry to Action Framework.
Audience:Â Teachers of Grades 5 – 12 (science, STEAM, health, social studies, civics)
Full Group Virtual Learning and Facilitated Lesson Planning: Follow the process of Inquiry to Action to develop your own project implementation planner to bring into your classroom or virtual experience for your students.
Highlights:
- Field Expert Guest Speakers: Lynne Cherry, Author and Founder of Young Voices for the Planet
- Luz Guel, Project Coordinator, Community Engagement Core, The Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures, Department of Population Health Science and Policy Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Case studies from master teachers in the field sharing student action projects and applications to teaching and learning
Self- Paced activities accessible through (presented as a Tool Kit) will include:Â
- Flipgrid introductions & pre reading assignments
- Mapping place and your community
- Completion of the Inquiry to Action framework
- CELF facilitated project planning work time
Takeaways:Â
- Complete a place-based/project-based lesson or unit using a local civic science topic such as air quality, water quality, pollinators, or soil quality.
- Learn about a variety of data collection methods, crowdsourcing tools and monitoring technology and how to use them with your students
- Design a plan to empower student action at your school
- Increase knowledge of project-based learning through Civic Science
- Increase student advocacy for healthy neighborhoods