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• Wild Learning: Practical Ideas to Bring Teaching Outdoors

  • When
    September 26, 2023
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Wild Learning: Practical Ideas to Bring Teaching Outdoors

  Tues, September 26 – 4pm Pacific

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  With Educator and Author Rachel Tidd

  Rachel Tidd has extensive teaching experience as an elementary and special education teacher and homeschool parent. She is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point in Educational Sustainability. She has a BSc in Environmental Science and a Master’s degree in Elementary and Special Education.

  Passionate about integrating the outdoors and natural materials in core academic areas such as reading and math, Rachel has authored the Wild Math® and Wild Reading® Curricula and the book Wild Learning: Practical Ideas for Bringing Teaching Outdoors.

  Rachel will share tips, tricks, and strategies from Wild Learning: Practical Ideas for Bringing Teaching Outdoors. This book gives teachers practical activities they can immediately implement and helps educators overcome common barriers to outdoor instruction. These activities can be done in common outdoor spaces accessible to teachers in all school settings, and they are adaptable to their current curriculum—not an extra thing to try to fit into their day.

  All registrants will be entered to win some great draw prizes! After registration you will receive a discount code to access the resources shared. Following the workshop you will receive the recording, and a link to access your Certificate of Attendance.

  You can access Rachel’s fantastic resource here:

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• Outdoor Learning through Patterns in Nature

  • When
    October 03, 2023
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Outdoor Learning through Patterns in Nature

  Tues, October 3 – 4pm Pacific

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  With Educators Janice Novakowski & Megan Zeni

  Join Janice and Megan to learn about some fantastic resources for educating, engaging, and empowering students around patterns in nature – connecting to math, numeracy and other curricula.

  Janice Novakowski is a district teacher consultant in the Richmond School District (BC) where she learns alongside preK-12 educators and students in the areas of mathematics and numeracy. She is also an Adjunct Professor at UBC where she teaches elementary mathematics education courses. Some of Janice’s fondest childhood experiences center on the outdoors, carefully turning over rocks on beaches to find little crabs, log jumping and hiking through moss and fern-filled forests.

  Megan Zeni is a mom of 3, an experienced elementary school teacher, and a master gardener. Megan successfully re-imagined the prep position in her public school and turned it into her dream job of spending her days with children in the garden classroom.

  Megan is an advocate for taking children outdoors at school in all kinds of weather to learn, play, and grow. Megan is also a PhD candidate at UBC in curriculum & pedagogy.

  All registrants will be entered to win some great draw prizes! After registration you will receive a discount code to access the resources shared. Following the workshop you will receive the recording, and a link to access your Certificate of Attendance.

  You can access these empowering resources here:  

  1.     Messy Maths
  2.     Patterns in Nature Kit: Coming Soon!!!

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• Fall 2023 Regional Meet-ups

  • When
    October 15, 2023
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Multiple

  SAVE THE DATE! Join environmental and outdoor education professionals from across your region to explore a local site, meet colleagues working in a variety of settings, and deepen your practice through shared learning. The event includes lunch, a tour of the site, networking activities, professional development, and an online gathering of meet-up participants from sites across California for the annual fall awards ceremony celebrating the northern and southern environmental educators of the year.

  Registration to open soon!

  LOCATIONS:

  In-person meet-ups are offered in multiple locations!

  
  

  If you don't see your region listed and would like to host a meet-up, contact AEOE's Executive Director Estrella Risinger at director@aeoe.org. 

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• Fall 2023 Regional Meet-up: Bay Area

  • When
    October 15, 2023
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Environmental Volunteers' EcoCenter, Palo Alto

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  Fall Regional Meet-up! 

  Join environmental and outdoor education professionals from across the SF Bay Area to explore a local site, meet colleagues working in a variety of settings, and deepen your practice through shared learning. The event includes lunch, a tour of the site, networking activities, professional development, and an online gathering of meet-up participants from sites across California for the annual fall awards ceremony celebrating the northern and southern environmental educators of the year.

  BAY AREA LOCATION: Environmental Volunteers' EcoCenter

  Address: 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303

  The EcoCenter is a public nature center and headquarters for Environmental Volunteers, located across from the Duck Pond in the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. 

  
  

  This event is offered in partnership with Environmental Volunteers and ChangeScale. 

   

  
  

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• Fall 2023 Regional Meet-up: Orange County

  • When
    October 15, 2023
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Back Bay Science Center, Newpart Beach

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  Fall Regional Meet-up! 

  Join environmental and outdoor education professionals from across Orange County to explore a local site, meet colleagues working in a variety of settings, and deepen your practice through shared learning. The event includes lunch, a tour of the site, networking activities, professional development, and an online gathering of meet-up participants from sites across California for the annual fall awards ceremony celebrating the northern and southern environmental educators of the year.

  ORANGE COUNTY LOCATION: Back Bay Science Center

  Address: 600 Shellmaker Road, Newport Beach, CA 92660

  Back Bay Science Center provides year-round educational programs centered around watershed education and estuarine ecology. Their goal is to educate local students and citizens about the critical role each person plays in the conserving our local resources and supporting the health of their watershed. Through hands on education they hope to give people the tools to become responsible stewards of their local natural spaces, including the Newport Back Bay.

  
  

  

  
  

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• Fall 2023 Regional Meet-up: San Diego County

  • When
    October 15, 2023
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Tecolote Canyon Nature Center, San Diego

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  Fall Regional Meet-up! 

  Join environmental and outdoor education professionals from across San Diego County to explore a local site, meet colleagues working in a variety of settings, and deepen your practice through shared learning. The event includes lunch, a tour of the site, networking activities, professional development, and an online gathering of meet-up participants from sites across California for the annual fall awards ceremony celebrating the northern and southern environmental educators of the year.

  SAN DIEGO LOCATION: Tecolote Canyon Natural Park & Nature Center

  Address: 5180 Tecolote Road, San Diego, CA 92110

  Tecolote Canyon Natural Park & Nature Center offers its visitors a variety of educational and recreational opportunities. The Canyon has approximately 6.5 miles of trails that can be used for jogging walking and mountain biking. Also available to visitors is the Tecolote Nature Center which offers a host of exhibits on the animal and plant life of the Canyon. Bring water, sun protection, and wear good footwear.
  

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• Fall 2023 Regional Meet-up: Central Valley

  • When
    October 15, 2023
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    San Joaquin River Parkway, Fresno

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  Fall Regional Meet-up! 

  Join environmental and outdoor education professionals from across the central valley to explore a local site, meet colleagues working in a variety of settings, and deepen your practice through shared learning. The event includes lunch, a tour of the site, networking activities, professional development, and an online gathering of meet-up participants from sites across California for the annual fall awards ceremony celebrating the northern and southern environmental educators of the year.

  CENTRAL VALLEY LOCATION: San Joaquin River Parkway

  Address: 11605 Old Friant Road, Fresno, CA 93730

  The San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust's mission is to preserve and restore San Joaquin River lands of ecological, scenic or historic significance, to educate the public on the need for stewardship, to research issues affecting the river, and to promote educational, recreational and agricultural uses of the river bottom consistent with the protection of the river’s resources.
  

  
  

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• Connecting Children to Nature through Indigenous Teachings

  • When
    October 17, 2023
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Connecting Children to Nature through Indigenous Teachings

  Tues, October 17 – 4pm Pacific

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  With Educator and Author Launa Purcell

  Join Author Launa as she shares about Heartbeat of the Earth – a Handbook on Connecting Children to Nature through Indigenous Teachings.

  Launa Purcell is a member of the Xa’xtsa First Nation and a mother of two. Launa works as an Indigenous Educator and teaches Indigenous outdoor camps.

  The activities inside instill traditional teachings of respect, honor, resourcefulness, and humility in children. This handbook is intended to inspire parents, caregivers, and educators to provide children with meaningful outdoor experiences interwoven with traditional Indigenous knowledge.

  This handbook isn’t a replacement for ensuring that local Indigenous knowledge and perspectives are central to your teaching. Rather, this is a starting point, and an encouragement to learn more, and use these activities as an inspiration to adapt them and adopt new ones in a culturally appropriate and responsive way.

  All registrants will be entered to win some great draw prizes! After registration you will receive a discount code to access the resources shared. Following the workshop you will receive the recording, and a link to access your Certificate of Attendance.

  You can access Launa’s beautiful resource here:

  • Heartbeat of the Earth

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• eeCourse: Universal Design for Learning in Environmental Education

  • Start
    November 01, 2023
  • End
    December 13, 2023
  • Location
    Online - Moodle

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  Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Environmental Education 

  Description: UDL is an approach that improves and optimizes teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. UDL is a framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible and challenging for all and that gives all students equal opportunity to succeed. Ultimately, the goal of UDL is to support students and participants to become “expert learners” who are, each in their own way, purposeful and motivated, resourceful and knowledgeable, and strategic and goal-driven.

  This course is designed to encourage you to reflect deeply on your practice to focus on how you plan and teach to support all learners. The course content and associated assignments are geared towards practicing environmental and outdoor educators. We hope this course will inspire you to strengthen your pedagogical practices so they are more welcoming, inclusive, and accessible.

  Timing: This 6-week course takes approximately 12 hours to complete. The course runs from November 1st through December 13th, 2023. This course is offered on a quarterly basis. 

  Format: This is an asynchronous online course. 

  • All activities must be completed independently on your own time/schedule within the 6-week timeframe. 

  • We will provide a suggested timeline and periodic reminders to encourage the timely completion of assignments. While we want to be flexible, we also want these learning experiences to be meaningful and we think timely and periodic work in the course will benefit participants more than trying to complete coursework at the last minute.

  • Coursework includes watching videos, reading articles, posting on public forums and Padlet boards, and writing/recording personal reflections.

  • The course is managed through Moodle - participants will be sent an invitation to access the course on the start date. 

  The course will be moderated by Amy Williams, Ed.D.

  One graduate unit is available upon completion of the course (the unit costs $79 and is purchased separately from University of San Diego). Note that you must also submit a certificate of competition in order to receive your transcript.

  Course content was designed by Michelle Silvers of Silver’s Lining PLLC, Estrella Risinger with AEOE, Michelle Pearce and Lauren Pyle with the Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC), with contributions from Rebekah Jones and the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning.

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• Building Capacity for Outdoor Learning: Introducing a Digital Tool for Success

  • When
    November 14, 2023
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Building Capacity for Outdoor Learning: Introducing a Digital Tool for Success

  Tues, November 14 – 4pm Pacific

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  With Outdoor Learning Experts Mariana Brussoni & Megan Zeni

  Join Mariana and Megan as they share the ‘BE OUT’ digital tool. BE OUT is a new tool for elementary (K-7) school teachers and includes exemplars of outdoor learning from a diversity of teachers organized in a digital format.

  The tool is designed with very short (90 second) modules and targets teachers new to teaching outdoors with support in four key areas: understanding risky play in the school context; getting started teaching outdoors; teaching with an emergent curriculum; and assessment of learning. 

  Dr. Mariana Brussoni is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership and Professor at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Her research investigates child injury prevention and children’s outdoor risky play with the aim of creating environments where all children can play outside every day.

  Megan Zeni is a mom of 3, an experienced elementary school teacher, and a master gardener. Megan successfully re-imagined the prep position in her public school and turned it into her dream job of spending her days with children in the garden classroom. Megan is an advocate for taking children outdoors at school in all kinds of weather to learn, play, and grow. Megan is also a PhD candidate at UBC in curriculum & pedagogy.

  All registrants will be entered to win some great draw prizes! After registering you will receive a discount code to access the resources shared, and following the workshop you can access the recording, and a link to access your Certificate of Attendance.

  Grow your outdoor educator skills with:

  • Dirty Teaching
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