All sustainability-inspired faculty and EcoVillage educators (and the frankly curious) are invited to the annual Faculty Development Retreat for the Partnerships in Sustainability Education program at EcoVillage, August 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The retreat will include a fabulous lunch of local foods featuring fresh produce from West Haven Farm.
The retreat planners will divide the time between updates and conversations about current projects and a miniworkshop on the pedagogy of sustainability education designed to be helpful to faculty in their course planning. This retreat never fails to be an inspirational start to the
fall semester.
Please RSVP to Stephanie (education@ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us) by Friday, August 15, so the retreat planners know how many people will be coming for lunch.
The Partnerships in Sustainability Education team is also considering offering a more extended afternoon workshop on sustainability education from 1:00 to 4:00 that same afternoon. Please let
Stephanie know if you would be interested in attending this optional afternoon workshop by Tuesday, August 5.
An opportunity for you to engage in collaborative course planning with peers, the workshop would build on the work done during the Finger Lakes project, and be designed to benefit faculty in all stages of thinking about how teaching methods and activities support the objectives of an education for sustainability. The majority of your time would be spent on your own course planning process. We will offer this workshop if at least 10 people plan to attend.
The Partnerships in Sustainability Education Leadership Team: Susan Allen-Gil, Marian Brown, Jason Hamilton, Susanne Morgan, Susan Swensen, Liz Walker, Elan Shapiro, and Tina Nilsen-Hodges
