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Building Readers and Writers Through Engaging with Place-based Sustainability Issues LIMITED
Thursday May 8, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm MDT
Raven
All aspects of sustainability rely on students' ability to critically read, write, and express ideas. Yet, instruction on climate change and sustainability is often fact-heavy and science-focused. Learn how to move students beyond “the facts” by teaching them to critically analyze and question texts including the environment, consider diverse perspectives, and identify issues of power and justice grounded in students’ local place. As students engage with sustainability topics in their communities, they become eager researchers, motivated to use writing and other modes of communication as powerful tools for action.
We will engage in a few activities, explore example lessons/unit, and review a framework to guide your unit/lesson planning. Leave with practical strategies and fresh inspiration to integrate local climate and sustainability issues into language arts or any subject! This session is based on my doctoral research in elementary schools in Canada.
Speakers
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Rachel Tidd

Executive Director, Wild Learning
Rachel Tidd is passionate about using outdoor and place-based learning to enhance literacy and math instruction. She is the author of the book Wild Learning: Practical Ideas for Bringing Teaching Outdoors and the Wild Math® and Wild Reading® Curricula series. Rachel is a former... Read More →
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Ivy Waite

Ivy is a settler educator who lives on and benefits from the traditional lands of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), which includes the Siksika, the Pikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina Nation, and Îyârhe Nakoda. She has taught alongside the human and more than human world in Calgary at... Read More →
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Jamie Groeller

Connect Charter School
Jaime Groeller is a settler Canadian who has been teaching for 15 years at a school with a focus on outdoor education and inquiry-based learning. This school is located in what is now often referred to as Calgary, Alberta, but is historically and currently known as Moh'kinstsis, Wîchispa... Read More →
Thursday May 8, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm MDT
Raven
  Environmental and Climate Change Education Workshop, Environmental and Climate Education

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