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January 15-17, 2010
January 15-17, 2010 - Friday Evening, Saturday, Sunday Morning (end at noon)
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We will</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> emerge from this meeting with inspiration, vision, and direction in environmental education: recommendations we can make and ideas we can take to independent schools everywhere.</span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We believe our climate problems will never be addressed adequately unless we get the issues into our curricula. But such curricular work cannot be done without lots of ideas and support, in a concerted effort, from active, bright, experienced educators of the type that we expect to convene at this event. </span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Our goal for this three day conference is to </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">convene teams and individuals from middle schools and high schools of environmental stewards/activists and “curriculum wizards,” meaning those talented colleagues we have in many of our schools who, when presented with an issue, come up with amazingly creative ways to address it in the classroom. We will</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> emerge from this meeting with inspiration, vision, and direction in environmental education: recommendations we can make and ideas we can take to independent schools everywhere.</span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Our work will be guided by nationally known figures in environmental education and ethics.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Friday: 4:30pm Check-in<br />
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Saturday: 9am - 3pm</span></font></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sunday: 9am - Noon</span></font></font></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">About the Presenters</span></font></span></h3>
<h5>Wynn Calder</h5>
<p>Wynn Calder is director of the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF), the secretariat for signatories of the Talloires Declaration (www.ulsf.org). He also directs Sustainable Schools, LLC, working primarily with K-12 independent and private schools to incorporate environmental sustainability into strategic planning, campus operations, curriculum and community outreach. Wynn has been principal consultant on environmental sustainability for the National Association of Independent Schools since 2003, and chairs the NAIS summer Institute for Leadership in Sustainability. He is review editor for the <em>Journal of Education for Sustainable Development</em> (Sage), and has written extensively on this topic. Wynn attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, received his Bachelor's Degree from Harvard University in 1984 and his Master's from Harvard Divinity School in 1993.</p>
<p>Mr. Calder's presentation: Sustainability and the Curriculum<br />
This opening session will focus on integrating concepts of environmental sustainability (and sustainable development) into existing courses and departments in three parts: (a) What is "Education for Sustainability" and why does it matter?; (b) Examples of teaching sustainability from independent schools; and (c) Strategies for curriculum development with a special focus on the Piedmont Project, Emory University's curriculum development project that "seeks to foster an invigorated intellectual community to address global issues and local environmental awareness."<font face="arial,helvetica"><font size="3" face="Geneva" color="#000000" family="SANSSERIF"><br />
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<h5>Whitney Sanford, Ph.D.</h5>
<p>Whitney Sanford, Ph.D. holds a dual assignment at the University of Florida, Gainesville, with a primary appointment in the Department of Religion - where her specialty is Religion and Nature and Hinduism - and affililate faculty in the School of Natural Resources and Environment in the College of Agriculture. Her recent work deals with Mohandas Gandhi's influence on contemporary food democracy movements. Her most recent manuscript is titled <em>Transforming Agriculture: Hindu Narrative and Ecological Imagination</em>.</p>
<p>Dr. Sanford's Presentation: "Greening and Feeding the World: Interdisciplinary Dimensions"<br />
Our contemporary challenge is feeding the world in a manner that is both environmentally sound and socially just. In this presentation Dr. Sanford will make a case for why "greening" should work broadly across the curriculum and not be limited to the obvious candidates. In addition to exploring interdisciplinary dimensions of the industrialized world's need to "feed the world," including Gandhi and agrarian reform, she will remark on how emerging biotechnologies challenge religious values/ideas, and the ethical questions of justice and obligations to others.<span style="font-family: monospace;"><font color="#800000"><br />
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<h5>Tom Collins</h5>
<p>Tom Collins' Presentation: "The Universe Story: A Guide for Curricular Thought"<br />
During the second half of the twentieth century scientific breakthroughs in physics, biology, and geology allowed modern science, for the first time, to constuct a Universe Story. The Universe Story, an epic of evolution, traces the universe from the creation of time and space, to the formation of the earth, tectonic plates, and the arising of cellular life on planet Earth. These important discoveries, with their resulting implications, radically displaced the core worldviews upon which most of our educational thinking and curriculum construction are based. Out of this new scientific narrative emerged new visions of world history, sometimes called "Big History," that offer a model of how we can begin to transform curriculum to match the current ecological needs of our planet. This presentation will focus on the new Universe Story and its implications for education. It will also address the current curricular work of Big History and the World History Association.</p>
<h5>Bridgette O'Brien</h5>
<p>Bridgette O'Brien's Presentation: "Navigating the Murky Waters of Curricular Change"</p>
<p>Multiple approaches are necessary for the complex problems we face, but schools can be important levers in promoting a sustainability revolution. Participants will leave this session with both a clearer understanding of how schools have helped promote social change in the past, and with specific examples of how science classes and ethics classes, English classes, and history classes are working to create an educated citizenry. Participants will depart with resources (reading, bibliographies, project ideas and power point resources) and a readiness to engage-with their students-in the challenge of navigating murky waters and innovating in their own curricula to further the cause of an environmentally sustainable and socially just future. <strong><span style="font-family: Times;"><br />
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<p>CSEE has a block of rooms at the <a href="http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=10354">Best Western Kendall</a>. A shuttle service will be provided between this hotel and Palmer Trinity School. For reservations, contact Best Western and note that you are with CSEE to get the special $115 rate.</p>
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Palmer Trinity School, Miami, FL
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2010-01-15T17:33:00Z
Inspiration, Vision, and Direction in Environmental Education
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This three-day conference will bring together nationally-known scholars in ethics and environmental education, and independent school teachers from around the nation, to discuss the task of "greening" our schools' curriculum. </span></font></span></p>
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2009-12-22T00:04:47Z
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