CWI's 2020 Summer EAST Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability

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CWI's 2020 Summer EAST Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability


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CWI's 2020 Summer EAST Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability

Special discounted rates are available for NAAEE members to attend CWI's 2020 Summer EAST Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability. CWI's acclaimed Summer EAST Institute is a unique opportunity for deep learning, collaboration, and networking in a design lab atmosphere, with like minded K-16 and community based educators from across the U.S. Develop high impact curriculum and programs that engage students, using the community as the classroom. The Institute provides a unique opportunity to understand why Place Based Service-Learning works, how it works, and how to use it most effectively with students.

"This was the best Institute or conference that I have ever attended!
I am newly inspired! I will start the school year with many ideas that I am excited to share and try.”
Terry Yamamoto-Edwards, Science Teacher
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii

CWI's Summer EAST Institute takes place at Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY, June 22-26, 2020. email us

Institute Outcomes
participants will become skilled at:
• Using powerful strategies for using the community as the classroom.
• Designing student learning around personal passion and interest.
• Connecting social emotional learning goals as outcomes for learning projects.
• Infusing project based learning with a compelling civic and public purpose.
• Focusing on students as active contributors to sustainable communities.
• Integrating student voice and agency, reciprocity, and reflection.
• Using ethnography to explore human connection, inclusion, and social justice.
• Employing strategies for program growth, team building, and institutional buy in.
• Inspiring and advancing a collective vision and practice as a leader.