Education for Sustainability Workshop
SWEP's 2006-2007 Theme: Education for Sustainability, Building community now and in the future
SWEP is pleased to announce Jamie Cloud from the Cloud Institute for Sustainability as our featured workshop presenter for this years’ back to school kick off.
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Last year I attended one of Jamie’s workshops and knew that our community could benefit from her ideas, research and solutions. The two day workshop that we have planned will take us through the concepts and mental models that surround Education for Sustainability. This is not about bio-diesel and solar energy! This is about how we choose to live, participate and solve problems in our community. There will be something for everyone in this workshop.
Why education for sustainability? In our final TTREC meeting of the year, participants brainstormed ideas for the 2006-07 theme that would focus the groups’ activities over the course of the year. Education for sustainability came out as the overarching theme, with a lot of specific areas of focus as part of that theme, the health (physical and mental) of our youth was at the top of the list.
We feel that education for sustainability is a broad enough topic that this introductory workshop will give us enough information and ideas for taking action on the topics on TTREC’s list for 06-07.
Schedule at a glance
Workshop for teachers, community partners, parents and youth
When: Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 9:00am-4:00pm
Where: Community Center, Tahoe City (next to the fire station, above the Art Center)
Who: Anyone interested in the topics of sustainability, community or education
How: Contact Christine McMorrow, 530-525-9457 or
Registration is $20
Inquire about graduate credit, buy-back and/or inservice credit
This workshop will weave the theme of Education for Sustainability (EfS) into a fun and challenging professional development opportunity for teachers, community members and youth.
Education for sustainability has a central role to play in advancing the social, economic, scientific and ecological literacy of our young people. It can also play a vital role in stimulating in people visions of hope, opportunity, responsibility and a sense of place and purpose that have the power to reverse trends of disconnection and hopelessness and to lead the way to a sustainable future.
For Teachers: What would students know, be like, and be able to do if they were educated for a sustainable future? What are we already doing? What do we need to do differently? Learn how to incorporate Education for Sustainability into standards-based instruction.
For Community: What is sustainability, and why are a growing number of businesspeople, architects, government officials, designers, educators, planners, and others talking about it and integrating it into their work? How does EfS relate to you and your profession?
For Youth: Have a voice in your future and gain a sense of place and hope! The Cloud Institute believes that youth education, especially in the contexts of citizenship and entrepreneurship, are essential in fostering hope by encouraging active participation in local communities toward a sustainable future.
About Jamie Cloud
Jamie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education (formerly the Sustainability Education Center) in New York City. The mission of The Cloud Institute is to ensure the viability of sustainable communities by leveraging changes in K-12 School Systems to prepare young people for the shift toward a sustainable future. We monitor the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability, and transform them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.
Ms. Cloud teaches extensively, and writes and facilitates the collaborative
development of numerous instructional units and programs that are designed to teach core courses across the disciplines through the lens of sustainability. Examples include, Ecological Economics for Life; Introduction to Sustainability; Changing Consumption Patterns; Systems Thinking; Core Content and Habits of Mind of Education for Sustainability, and From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems.
For more information about the Cloud Institute see their website: http://www.sustainabilityed.org/.
• 530-525-9457 • PO Box 1096, Homewood CA 96141 • Revised 8/21/06