September 2023 | Programs, resources & stories for educators

NEW RESOURCE

A Guide for Equitable Climate Change Education

Climate change education specialist Joan Haley has co-written Right Here! An Educator's Guide for Equitable Climate Action in the Upper Valley and Beyond. The guide is full of ideas, advice, practical tools, and hopeful stories from educators and learners already doing this work in our region.

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YOUTH/ADULT PROGRAM

Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability

There's still time to join us for this year-long virtual program, kicking off October 4. Offered in partnership with UP for Learning.

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PHOTO STORY

Summer Highlights

This summer, hundreds of educators (perhaps including you!) participated in our professional learning. See the highlights in photos and get a taste for what it's like to join us for a program.

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VIRTUAL INFO SESSION

11/1: Discover the Education for Sustainability Certificates

Chat with facilitators from Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools and the University of Vermont about two transformative graduate certificate pathways, enrolling now for a 2024 start. Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 5:30PM ET.

Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Teach locally? Fall is the perfect time to visit the Shelburne Farms Children's Farmyard with your class or group! Request a self-guided visit now through Oct. 22.

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Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability, Fall 2023–Spring 2024

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Learning Locally, Transforming Globally: The UN SDGs in My Community, Oct. 13, NAAEE Pre-Conference Workshop

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Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative Fall Conference, Oct. 13

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Getting REAL: An Equity- and Action-Centered Approach for Climate Resiliency Education, Oct. 17, NAAEE Conference

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Becoming Practitioners of Place: Essential Understandings of the Indigenous Peoples of Vermont, Oct. 26, The Annual Rowland Conference

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2023 Vermont Farm to School & Early Childhood Network Annual Gathering, Oct. 30

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All professional learning programs

What We're Following

New Jersey requires climate change education. A year in, here's how it's going, via NPR.

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Local food is on the menu for Woodstock, Vermont-area schools. How the Mountain Views Supervisory Union made the switch, via Valley News.

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New from Subject2Climate, a free education hub for teaching about climate change in Maine.

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Vermont State Climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux fosters cutting-edge K–12 climate literacy, via Seven Days.

Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future.

The Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools offers professional learning programs and resources for PreK-12 educators. All of our offerings prepare educators to facilitate learning experiences for students using a lens of sustainability. We believe in the power and potential of students to address the world's most pressing issues. We see schooling as a pathway to create healthy and just communities, successful lives, and a more livable world for all. In partnership with students and communities, educators are changemakers.