Advanced Summer Institute

EfS 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. See agenda here.

Date: Monday July 26- Friday July 30th, 2010; Sunday July 25th: Introduction to Sustainability Workshop

Time: Sunday: 9:00AM-4:00PM; Monday-Friday: 9:00AM-4:00PM (except Friday 9:00AM-3:00PM)

Location: 352 Seventh Avenue at 30th Street, 16th Floor; New York, NY 10001 (a few blocks from our office)

Meals: Lunch is included every day, the center we are in sells coffee and bagels in the morning.

Lodging: Lodging is not included--see a list of Chelsea hotels here.

Registration: Early Bird Rate $650 (M-F) available until April 1st, 2010! You save $100. REGISTER TODAY!

If you have not taked our Introduction to Sustainability Workshop you must take it on Sunday July 25th (9-4PM). The fee is $100. REGISTER

I thoroughly enjoyed the week's instruction, and found it one of the two most meaningful/transformative "inservice" sessions in my 30+ year career in education. I'm anxious to learn more. ~Melanie Wallace, Wise Watt, LLC