Professional Learning

Wholly Wild: A Retreat for Teacher Transformation

Woodsong Forest School

Wholly Wild 2023, is an invitation to an embodied, experiential retreat that is designed to transform the inner landscape of the teacher in the beautiful foothills of southeast Appalachia, April 27–30th, 2023.

Problem Solving Workshop: Civics & EE

Earth Force

Join Earth Force on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 4 PM ET for an Environmental Action Civics problem-solving workshop. Bring a question or challenge you are experiencing and be ready to brainstorm solutions with others.

Are you excited about becoming an ambassador for climate storytelling in your community? Join Climate Stories Project and participants from around the world for a 3-part training series to learn about climate storytelling, develop interview skills, and record and share climate stories. Please register at: https://wpi.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-uopzsoHNH0EHcQ-L_Sq1V1cNHOe1U1

Climate Storytelling Teacher Training

Climate Stories Project

As part of the 2023 Worldwide Climate Teach-in, Climate Stories Project is hosting the first online climate storytelling workshop for K–12 and University teachers from around the world! The online climate storytelling is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register at: https://wpi.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudOGrqTorGtB5PT7GpmTLi_WOJ47v62CH

TWM's 2023 Hybrid Spring Marine Naturalist Training Program

The Whale Museum

The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor, WA, has been training marine naturalists since 1994. TWM's Spring Marine Naturalist Training Program will enhance your opportunity to work as a naturalist or take advantage of volunteer opportunities. The spring hybrid program takes place on April 18–22 with virtual presentations and April 24 & 25 with optional in-person field trips.

Sustainability & Classroom Grants Work Session

EcoRise

Join a virtual PD with EcoRise on 3/7 to get your students solving sustainability issues in their communities. Access to standards-aligned curricula, resources, and student project grants are now available to classrooms across the US! Come learn how our Eco-Audit Grants get students analyzing data, designing solutions, and implementing real-world projects that benefit their communities.

Nature Forward's Taking Nature Black Conference

Nature Forward

This year’s event from Nature Forward takes place during two virtual days; one in-person conference day at the Silver Spring Civic Center in downtown Silver Spring, MD; and one day of free, outdoor nature experiences.

Creating an Inclusive Outdoors Together with James Edward Mills

Aldo Leopold Foundation

Join us on Tuesday, March 7th at 12 PM CT as James Edward Mills shares his work with the Joy Trip Project–his ongoing project exploring how we can all live in balance with the natural world and each other. Join us for a lunchtime session to identify your role in this important work. Register for our free virtual programs at: crowdcast.io/c/leopoldweek23

Bow Seat Contest: Workshops for Teachers

Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs

Are you looking to extend your student’s work beyond the classroom? Have you ever wondered how to amplify your student’s creative voice in the fight against climate change?

For over a decade, Bow Seat has provided students worldwide with a platform to speak out against environmental injustice and advocate for their future through art, writing, film, music, dance, and more in our award-winning environmental art contest. Bow Seat is pleased to offer free Teacher Training workshops to make it as easy as possible to bring the Contest into your classroom.

Tell the Economic Story of Your Farmland Protection & Food System Programs Without Hiring an Economist, Tuesdays Sept 12–Oct. 10, 2023

The Harbinger Consulting Group

You don’t need to hire an economist and wade through piles of complex data to understand the economic benefits of your programs, locally conserved lands, farms and local food systems This course will help you learn to paint a broad, research and data-based picture of the economic effects of your farmland protection and food system programs. You will also learn how to tell that story to support advocacy, fundraising, agriculture-based economic development, and stronger community relationships. You will learn and adapt a proven approach that engages community resources without hiring an economist, consultant or communications shop.

Tell the Economic Story of Your Conserved Lands and Trails Without Hiring an Economist, June 6 - July 11, 2023

The Harbinger Consulting Group

You don’t need to hire an economist and wade through piles of complex data to understand the economic benefits of your programs. This course will help you learn to paint a broad, research and data-based picture of the economic effects of your trail system or conserved lands—or project the benefits of a proposed trail or conservation program. You will also learn how to tell that story to support advocacy, fundraising, conservation-based economic development, and stronger community relationships. You will learn and adapt a proven approach that engages community resources without hiring an economist, consultant or communications shop.

Creative Placemaking: Creating Communities We Love Through Arts & Culture, Diverse Partners, and Community Spaces

The Harbinger Consulting Group

Make the most of creativity in your community. Creative Placemaking leverages arts, culture, and nature to engage, revitalize, and reshape communities. In this course, you will learn how to use the Creative Placemaking process to identify and leverage overlooked assets in your community, highlight and deepen your community’s unique character, integrate arts and culture into planning, expand participation for greater equity, and engage creativity and local knowledge to make your community a great place to live, work, play and visit.

Outdoor Recreation Roadmap: A Community-Led Approach to Leveraging Your Natural Assets for Economic Success and Local Renewal, Thursdays April 6–May 4, 2023

The Harbinger Consulting Group

Whether they are old hands or just getting started, communities across the country—and around the world—are looking to outdoor recreation to play a bigger role in their community and economic development strategies, and even to anchor a new sense of common purpose, pride and care.

So how do you make this work for you? In this course, we drill down to the nitty gritty—how to bring your community together around outdoor recreation to generate more awareness and buy-in, make quick progress that can be sustained over time, and create meaningful changes that make a difference for your community’s business and economic vitality, physical health and confidence. You’ll learn a step-by-step process that you can adapt to use “nature-based placemaking” to transform how your community sees, talks about and invests in itself to make it a more attractive place to live, visit and do business.

Do-It-Yourself Trail User Research You Can Start Right Away

The Harbinger Consulting Group

In this online course, you will learn how to pull together—and pull off—a meaningful trail study that you can afford. You’ll emerge with a plan for a trail study that you can implement right away, whether you have money or not, using targeted volunteer effort, free or low-cost tools, and an approach focused on what you most want or need to learn. You will also learn how to analyze your results, present findings, and use your study to catalyze action.

2023 Forests of NH teacher Tour - Professional Development
July 18–21, 2023 - Tall Timber Lodge, Pittsburg, NH
A 4-day tour of NH forests and mills.

Children and Nature Network is hosting a self-care in nature program. I came across this webinar in their most recent newsletter and it looks like a great line-up of presenters with a great topic.

Urban Ecology Center Institute March 2023 online Intensive

Urban Ecology Center

Join us to hear, first hand, how the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee began in a degraded park, with the ambition of a few teachers to show kids from nearby schools how to discover nature in their neighborhood. See how this ambition grew into the vibrant organization we have today, connecting tens of thousands of students each year to nature. Please share this invitation with others in your network, the creative problem solvers, community leaders, program directors, and educators.

Join Bard College every Wednesday, 10am and 9pm EST to develop your Climate Educator Skills, and Learn More about bringing WorldWide Teach-in On Climate and Justice to your community. Consider holding a Teach In at your school, or consider holding one in your faith community.

Emergency Response Plan for Nature-Based Programs Course

Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools

An emergency response plan is an important part of a school, program, or Center's safety plan, but how do you plan for the emergent situations that can arise in a nature-based setting? This course, designed by Wild Med for ERAFANS, offers a specialized look at creating an emergency response plan for your program.

'Celebrating Women in Science' livestream for students

World Wildlife Fund

In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, join WWF's Wild Classroom on February 9 for an interactive, livestreamed experience featuring two women scientists from WWF's Arctic team! Alexis Will (marine biologist) and Elisabeth Kruger (conservationist) will share some of their favorite experiences in the science field protecting Arctic wildlife, what science means to them, and what interesting research they are looking forward to working on in the future. Register now!

EcoBlitz Microcredential

Cal Poly Humboldt

EcoBlitz Microcredential for K-12 educators, environmental educators, park rangers, museum educators, and others. March 1-May 1, 2023

A Wade Institute for Science Education professional workshop for grades 6–12 educators
An Approved Course for MA DESE’s Accelerating Science: Open Access Professional Learning