NAAEE Members, Join us at The Institute in 2020!

Special discounted rates are available for NAAEE members to attend CWI's 2020 Summer WEST Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability. CWI's acclaimed Summer WEST 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. learn more

"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 WEST Institute takes place at Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles, CA, July 27-31, 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.