Ithaca College

The Finger Lakes Project: A 2-day interactive training workshop at Wells College in Aurora, July 14-15, 2016

Join us for an inspiring opportunity to:

• Deepen your understanding of Education for Sustainability (EfS)
• Receive coaching to develop outcome-based lesson plans that integrate sustainability education into your curriculum and content.
• Experience models for integrating content from the three “pillars” of sustainability education (social justice, science and economics) into your classes.
• Explore curriculum models that integrate diverse modalities into age-appropriate, engaging, content-rich and complex learning.
• Be trained in constructivist media decoding that integrates critical literacy and content knowledge into your EfS toolkit.
• Practice classroom-based questioning strategies.
• Explore and evaluate models for inquiry-based pedagogy.

Does the Finger Lakes Project (FLP) sound familiar? It should! It was offered at Ithaca College with external funding from the NSF and the HSBC in the Community Foundation from 2005-2013. As far as we know, the Finger Lakes Project is the only such specialized sustainability curriculum development workshop offered within New York State and perhaps even within the Northeast U.S.! You can find more info about prior workshops here. With permission from the IC faculty members who developed the program, Well's College's Center for Sustainability and the Environment is carrying forward this initiative to provide high quality trainings in Education for Sustainability (EfS) with the generous support of the Jephson Educational Trust.

We hope you will join us!

Early Bird workshop fee:  $100 including all meals and workshop materials (rate good until June 24)
Note: Early Birds will get a survey to enable the facilitators to tailor the workshop to better meet your needs.
 
Regular workshop fee: $150 including all meals and workshop materials (register before July 7) 
Wells College on-campus lodging is available for $55 per night.
 
Learn more about the 2016 Finger Lakes Project workshop
https://www.wells.edu/academics/center-sustainability-environment/finger-lakes-project
 
K-12 educators - Register for the 2016 Finger Lakes Project workshop (using My Learning Plan)
https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10453&I=2111808
 
Collegiate educators - Register for the 2016 Finger Lakes Project workshop
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZKXK5BW 

The Finger Lakes Project workshop facilitation team:  

Karryn Olson-Ramanujan is principal educator for SEEDS Consulting (Strategy, Education, & Ecological Design for Sustainability), which offers transformative learning that enables clients to participate in the sustainability revolution. 

Chris Sperry, award winning teacher and Professional Development trainer, will lead trainings in integrating media literacy and critical thinking into the curriculum. Other Project Look Sharp coaches will also be available to support participant’s learning.
 
Have questions about the Finger Lakes Project workshop? Contact Marian Brown, director, Center for Sustainability and the Environment, Wells College, at 315-364-3304 or mbrown@wells.edu.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Marian Brown at mbrown@wells.edu or (315) 364-3304. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.