New Fellows Sustainability Program:
Open enrollment extended until Dec. 10, 2008

The Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative, in partnership with the Center for Ecoliteracy, is offering a fellows program for educators interested in schooling for sustainability. Dr. Carolie Sly, director of education programs at the Center for Ecoliteracy, is facilitating the program.

Fellows will meet four times during the 2008-2009 school year. Their first meeting was at the Center for Ecoliteracy’s pre-conference intensive at the Bioneers Conference on October 17, 2008. The second meeting will take place on December 11 and will feature keynote speaker Fritjof Capra and guest presenter Mark Stefanski from Marin Academy. The final two meetings will be held February 5 and April 15, 2009. Participating educators will develop and implement a sustainable education project of their choice. For more information:
The Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative

2009 Seminars

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Conference
Feb. 25-27, 2009, Chicago, Ill.

The Center for Ecoliteracy and Head-Royce School in Oakland, Calif., will showcase their partnership to cultivate a model sustainable school during the NAIS Annual Conference in Chicago, Feb. 25 to 27, 2009. The event will cover advancing sustainability in the curriculum, food, gardens, and the community. The Center for Ecoliteracy will also share case studies on schooling for sustainability nationwide. For more information:
NAIS Conference

Schooling for Sustainability
June 22-24, 2009: San Anselmo, California
A three-day Center for Ecoliteracy residential institute for educators and others committed to schooling for sustainability.

Smart by Nature
August 14-15, 2009: Berkeley, California
A two-day seminar on what it means to be “smart by nature” and to advance schooling for sustainability. With Fritjof Capra, David W. Orr, and other special guests at the Center for Ecoliteracy’s new headquarters in The David Brower Center.

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2008 Seminars

Rethinking Food, Health, and the Environment:
Making Learning Connections
June 22-27, 2008: San Anselmo, California
August 9-13, 2008: New York, New York
A residential institute for educators, parents, and activists dedicated to helping schools and districts create learning connections between healthy school food and curriculum. Copresented by the Center for Ecoliteracy and Teachers College Columbia University.

Environmental Sustainability: Making Learning Connections
August 14-15, 2008: The Bay School of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Offered in partnership with the Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative, this institute introduced schooling for sustainability into K-12 classes across the disciplines. Featured speakers: Fritjof Capra, bestselling author and cofounder of the Center for Ecoliteracy; the academic dean and faculty from the Head-Royce School in Oakland; representatives of Environmental Education for Kids, The Edible Schoolyard, and Ecocity Builders. Facilitated by Carolie Sly, education programs director for the Center for Ecoliteracy, and the Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative.

Center for Ecoliteracy Workshop for Slow Food in Schools
August 29, 2008: Slow Food Nation Conference
San Francisco, California
A workshop on instructional choices and ways to choose and design lessons that increase understanding, through a model of engaging the head, heart, hands, and spirit. Using the Center for Ecoliteracy's new publication, Big Ideas: Linking Food, Health, Culture, and the Environment, working with a conceptual framework and planning learning activities.

Help Wanted: 50 Million New Farmers
August 29, 2008: Slow Food Nation Changemakers Day
San Francisco, California
A panel discussion for professionals focused on sustainable food systems, featuring farmers and representatives of Marin Organic and the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and moderated by Karen Brown, creative director of the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Thinking Like an Island: Promoting Place-Based Ecoliteracy
October 3, 2008: Maui Independent Schools Organization
Professional Development Conference
A conference focused on supporting local educators in their efforts to integrate sustainability principles and practices into the curriculum. Featuring Michael Ableman, author, farmer, and the Center for Ecoliteracy’s food and farming advisor; and Carolie, Sly, Ph.D., the Center’s education program director.

EcoSchools: Educating for Sustainable Communities:
A Pre-Conference Intensive at Bioneers
October 16, 2008: Bioneers Conference
San Rafael, California
An intensive designed for educators, activists, and others wanting to learn about best practices for “greening” schools, integrating ecological learning across the curriculum, and sustaining the natural and social communities in which schools exist. Featured speakers: Fritjof Capra, Center for Ecoliteracy cofounder and bestselling author; David W. Orr, professor of environmental studies and politics at Oberlin College; and Jeannette Armstrong, executive director of the En’owkin Centre on the Penticton Indian Reserve in British Columbia.