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Introduction to Sustainability Workshop
We recommend attending our Introduction to Sustainability Workshop if you are new to the field of Education of Sustainability. The workshop is from 9am-4pm, in our green office. Our next Introduction workshop is on Sunday July 25th.REGISTER
In this workshop, we will create a learning community that engages participants in activities that combine systems thinking, sustainable economics, and the science of sustainability. This full-day workshop is designed to increase participants’ awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the core concepts, content, and habits of mind that characterize living and working toward a sustainable future.
Introduction and “The Fish Game” Simulation
This hands-on workshop engages participants in an interactive, replicable, interdisciplinary classroom activity that combines systems thinking tools, ecological systems, and economics for a deeper understanding of our role in moving toward a more sustainable future. A discussion of ‘mental models for sustainability’ and ‘activities to reach sustainable outcomes’ provides participants with a hopeful paradigm for education and community action.
Quality of Life Indicators
What is an indicator of progress? What indicators do we currently use in our society? Are these the best measures of our quality of life and, if not, what would be better measures?
“Diminishing Resources” Activity
How can you, your colleagues, and your students use systems thinking to solve problems? How do you know you are solving the real problem? How can you ensure that you don’t create even more, unintended problems in your attempts? This session will make use of critical systems thinking tools of Education for Sustainability (EfS) in order to create a framework for effectively solving problems.
Education for Sustainability Framework
Why educate for a sustainable future? This session will introduce the EfS framework, including the core content and habits of mind of EfS.
Discussion of Next Steps and Reflections
Audience: educators, communitiy members
Date: Sunday July 25th, 2010
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: The Cloud Institute, 307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1201, New York, NY 10001
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Advanced Summer Institute: Curriculum Design Studio
What does it take to design curricula that educates for a sustainable future from Pre-K-12th grade?
How can we design elegant units of study that educate for sustainability? What tools are available to us to do so? What are the core EfS content and performance standards/outcomes and indicators we can use to design learning opportunities and assess student learning? How can we align EfS Core Standards/Outcomes with the ones our school/our State require? Can we integrate EfS units into our curriculum mapping software? How can Understanding by Design or a “backwards design” approach contribute to the design of EfS curricula? What explicit criteria can we use to assess student work for evidence of EfS? How do we plan for vertical and horizontal integration of the EfS Standards/Outcomes and Indicators? Can we see some exemplars of EfS units that other teachers and schools have developed? Can we see exemplary student work from those schools?
This annual institute is designed for faculty teams, curriculum supervisors and their teams and individuals who are interested in addressing these and any other questions you have about designing curriculum units that educate for sustainability. For those schools that are ready for vertical and lateral curriculum mapping and integration of EfS across the curriculum, time will be set aside for “big picture planning” as well.
Date: July 25-30th, 2010
Location: New York City
REGISTER: $750 (includes lunch, does not include lodging)
Past Programs
What is systems thinking? How do we fit in the systems in which we live and operate? As a systems thinker you learn to see the whole picture, changing your perspectives to see new leverage points in complex systems. Come join us and learn the basics about systems thinking and how you can apply it in your learning and teaching. Download the reading list.
