Workshops and Events Calendar
Througout the year, SWEP offers professional development workshops to formal and non-formal educators. Events include fundraisers, stewardship days and volunteer opportunities.
2009-2010Calendar
Click on the workshop/event title to see more information. To learn more, read descriptions about the workshops by clicking here.
AUGUST 2009
11 Project WET Workshop, South Lake Tahoe.
Registration CLOSED: Workshop Full!
SEPTEMBER
Teacher's Interpretive Hike Series
OCTOBER
14-21 Wonders of Water
18 Truckee River Day, Truckee
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY 2010
7 Winter Discovery Center Volunteer Training @ Tahoe Cross Country, Tahoe City
23 Project WILD, hosted by the Tahoe Rim Trail @ the DW Reynolds Building, Incline Village
FEBRUARY
3 Project WET @ Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, Incline Village
Pay for this workshop with your credit card! Sorry, we have to charge a $1 service fee for card purchases.
Click on the button to pay for the February WET workshop with your credit card.
27 Trout in the Classroom, South Lake Tahoe
27 Project WILD Aquatic, South Lake Tahoe
MARCH
13Trout in the Classroom 9am-12noon @ the Historic Fish Hatchery Tahoe City
13 Project WILD Aquatic, 1-5pm @ the Historic Fish Hatchery Tahoe City
Click here for registration information
19-20 Facilitator Training, Project Learning Tree
APRIL
3 Project Learning Tree Educator Workshop, USFS office South Lake Tahoe
Contact Lindsay Gusses @ lgusses@fs.fed.us or 530-543-2694.
15 Science Fair Volunteer Orientation, Tahoe Lake School 4-5pm. Hosted by SWEP. Contact christine@4swep.org or 530-525-9457.
17 South Lake Tahoe Earth Day Celebration, Lake Tahoe Community College 10am-5pm
20 Science Fair Volunteer Orientation, Kings Beach Elementary, 5:15-6:15pm. Hosted by SWEP. Contact christine@4swep.org or 530-525-9457.
24 Envirolution "Trashion" show, 3:15pm Main Stage, Earth Day Celebration, Village at Squaw
MAY
JUNE
3 Tahoe Gal Sunset Cruise Fun'Raiser
JULY
10 Children's Environmental Science Day, 1-4pm @ the UC Davis Historic Fish Hatchery building. Hosted by UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center http://terc.ucdavis.edu/calendar/index.html
10 Grand Opening and Open House, UC Davis Hisotric Fish Hatchery (Lake Forest & Hwy 28).
19-22 Watershed Summer Camp, Ages 7-11. Hosted by SWEP/Tahoe City PUD. Sign up through TCPUD, 530-583-3440 x10
Credit card payments for workshops and events will be charged a $1 per ticket service charge. Sorry!
This Professional Development Calendar shows offering by SWEP and other partners in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Past Professional Development
All dates and locations, as well as availability, are subject to change. Though we encourage you to set aside dates of interest, please also check with the provider as the program approaches to confirm details and to register.
Workshop and Event Partners
- California Coastal Commission (CCC): Waves, Wetlands & Watersheds
- Incline Village GID WasteNot Clean Water Team: Water Monitoring for Teachers
- Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB): Waves, Wetlands and Watersheds
- Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC): Lake Tahoe Issues and Agencies, Lake Tahoe Natural History, Geology of Tahoe Basin, Wilderness Institute Weekend, Wilderness Institute Backcountry
- Lake Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition (LTEEC): Symposium on Environmental Education at Lake Tahoe Schools, Water Monitoring for Teachers, Snapshot Day, others
- League to Save Lake Tahoe (KeepTahoeBlue): Forest Stewardship Day
- Marine Research & Education, Inc. (MR&E):
- Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW): Project WILD
- Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP): Project WET
- Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF): Project Fire & Project Learning Tree
- Nevada Natural Resource Education Council (NNREC): Project Learning Tree
- Placer County Water Agency: Project WET
- Placer Nature Center: Project WET
- River of Words Nevada (ROW): Poetry on the Lake / River of Words
- Sagehen Creek Field Station, UC Berkeley: Truckee River Speakers Series
- Sierra Nevada College (SNC):
- Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships(SWEP): Teachers Interpretive Hike Series (fall - TTUSD), Winter Workshop Series (winter - TTUSD), Teachers Interpretive Hike Series (spring - LTUSD), Place Based Learning Workshop (winter), Community Leaders in the Classroom (winter), Schoolyard Habitats (summer)
- South Tahoe Clean Water Team: Water Monitoring for Teachers
- Space Science for Schools (SS4S): Project ASTRO
- Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC): Community Leaders in the Classroom
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA): TIIMS for Teachers
- Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA): Leave No Trace
- Teachers Association for Outdoor and Adventure Education (TAO): winter curriculum
- Truckee River Watershed Council (TRWC): Water Monitoring for Teachers, Truckee River Day, Truckee River Aquatic Monitors (TRAM)
- Truckee Tahoe Regional Education Coalition (TTREC): Service Learning 101, Project Citizen
- University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE): Weed Warriors Workshop
- USDA Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU): Project Fire
- Washoe CSD Center for Teaching and Learning Inservice (PD) Info
- Douglas CSD Professional Development Opportunities [click on Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment (at the top), then on Professional Development Opportunities (at the side)]
- Tahoe-Truckee USD Training Matrix
- Lake Tahoe USD
Areas / Districts
Some professional development activites are only for the teachers and community partners of a particular school district, while others are open to people from anywhere in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The basin, defined here, includes Truckee.
- Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (TTUSD): Tahoe City, Kings Beach, Truckee, and other communities of the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe in California
- Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD): South Lake Tahoe, and other communites of the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe in California
- Washoe County School District (WCSD): Incline Village and other communities of the northeast shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada
- Douglas County School District (DCSD): Zephyr Cove, Stateline, and other communities of the southeast shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada
Hours and Credits
- HR (Hours): number of contact hours for workshop or activity
- CR (Credit):
- B = Tahoe-Truckee USD Buy-Back
- C = college credit, Sierra Nevada College recertification or Lake Tahoe Community College credit
- I = in-service for Nevada teachers
- this entry indicates only that the host intends to arrange credit, it is not a guarantee that any particular type of credit will be available for any particular professional development activity; contact the host for information about credit
Online Courses
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