In partnership with UVM Tarrant Institute, we’re going to explore how educators can— along with their students —incorporate exploration of the rhythms of the natural world here in Vermont as a backbone for meaningful personalized learning.

As the world wakes up around us, what can we learn from it about managing our own emotional and mental situations as learners?

How can we use natural observation to help our students design meaningful learning opportunities outside of school?

We’re offering this workshop again in response to demand!

We’re offering this workshop again in response to demand!

We’re offering this workshop again in response to demand!

This virtual gathering will feature local Indigenous leaders, community partners, educators, and students in Vermont, New York, and Quebec joining together to celebrate World Water Day! Students have skillfully combined their social, cultural, artistic, and scientific lenses to create works in a variety of media based on this year’s World Water Day theme: The Value of Water.

Engage with us to question and unsettle our notions of place, colonization, and identity together 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? Together we’ll tease apart, examine and begin to reconstruct what place-based education is and can be. This 1.5 hour workshop is designed for K-12 educators with some familiarity with place-based education.

An exciting new 4-part series of placed-education workshops, beginning March 3rd, focused on the carbon cycle and climate change using community science (Free for selected participants!)