The Summer Institute 2025 will be hosted June 23–27 at the World Fellowship Center, Albany NH.

How can we integrate real-world problem solving, joy, and impactful climate solutions into our schools and communities? Come work and play in the White Mountains of NH to explore these questions together. Along with expertise from Vermont and New Hampshire Energy Education Programs (VEEP/NHEEP) you will gain insights from several Youth Climate Leaders, MindSpark Learning—which specializes in problem-based learning to prepare students for the modern workforce—as well as the fabulous cohort of skilled educators like yourself who choose to participate in the program. You will plan a curriculum that cultivates hope and brings students meaningful learning opportunities to tackle relevant climate solutions for their community. 

Open to all educators, any grade, any subject.

Participants will: 

• Figure out how to make climate learning problem-based, hands-on and accessible to all students
• Become comfortable using student-driven learning practices as modeled through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
• Find locally relevant, hopeful, solutions-focused learning opportunities related to climate and energy
• Practice finding a pathway to action while navigating specific standards, constraints, and circumstances

COST: $600 for programming, $500 for room and board = $1100 total. Early Bird Pricing: Save $100 if you register by May 1, 2025!

This low cost for teachers is made possible through support from Efficiency Vermont, the Windham Foundation, the Byrne Foundation, the Oakland Foundation.

Further scholarships available for VT and NH teachers–please contact info@veep.org to apply.

CREDIT: All participants will receive professional development certificates.

Graduate credit is available through Vermont State University or Antioch University New England for an additional fee ($600 for a 3 credit course) and some continuing coursework.