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.

2010-2011Calendar

Click on the workshop/event title to see more information. To learn more, read descriptions about the workshops by clicking here.

AUGUST 2010

25 School starts

SEPTEMBER

14-30 Water Quality Monitoring and Forest Ecology at Sagehen Creek

OCTOBER

13 Science club @ Rideout Community Center, open to all kids k-8, $2

17 Truckee River Day and River Fair, Granite Flat Campground Truckee

NOVEMBER

10 Science club @ Rideout Community Center, open to all kids k-8, $2

DECEMBER

2 SWEP Friend Raiser, Sawtooth Ridge Cafe, Tahoe City, 5-7pm $10 View the flyer

16 Volunteer Training: Weather Monitoring @ the Winter Discovery Center, tahoe Cross Country Center 9-10am

JANUARY 2011

4 Winter Discovery Center Programs begin, grades3-5

12 Science club @ Rideout Community Center, open to all kids k-8, $2

15 & 16 Full Moon Yurt Dinner, Contact Valli @ Tahoe Cross Country for tickets

FEBRUARY

3 Project WET Educator Workshop, 10am-4pm, Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, Incline Village. View the flyer and agenda by clicking here.

Register with your credit card now.

21-25 Ski Skate Week

MARCH

4 Envirolution Club Fundraiser @ Truckee High $10 adults, $6 kids. All funds raised will help students get to Atlanta, GA for the National Service Learning Conference. View the FLYER for more information.

9 Science club @ Rideout Community Center, open to all kids k-8, $2

17 An Exotic Trip to SE Asia, 6-8pm @ the Tahoe XC Center Yurt. $10 for food, beverages, music and a vicarious trip to SE Asia via a slide show presented by Lynda and Dewey Paul.

19 Trout in the Classroom educator workshop, 9am-12noon @ the Historic Fish Hatchery, Tahoe City. This workshop is FREE. View the FLYER for more information.

16-18 Science Expo, hosted by UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center

APRIL

6-9 National Service Learning Conference

13 Science club @ Rideout Community Center, open to all kids k-8, $2

23Envirolution "Trashion" show, Main Stage, Earth Day Celebration, Village at Squaw

MAY

11 Science club @ Rideout Community Center, open to all kids k-8, $2

JUNE

9 Tahoe Gal Sunset Cruise Fun'Raiser 5-7:30pm $30 single; $50 double. Leaves from Tahoe City.

View the Flyer or contact Christine @ 530-525-9457 for more details.

Tahoe Gal Tickets

Single Ticket $30.00 Double Ticket $50.00

JULY

11-15 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

• University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, http://www.uwsp.edu/natres/rwilke/eetap/
  • Fundamentals of Environmental Education, Sep 13 – Nov 19, also spring
  • Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluation, Oct 11 – Dec 13, also spring
• Jason Academy, http://www.jason.org/jason_academy/courses/course_descriptions.htm
  • Assessment of Student Science Understanding
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Learning Reading Strategies for Middle School Science
  • Teaching Project Based Science
  • Water Quality
  • other courses may be of interest
• NTEN National Teachers Enhancement Network, http://scienceteacher.org/courses.htm
  • Environmental Science Education: Fall Ecological Field Studies

• 530-525-9457 • PO Box 1096, Homewood CA 96141 • Revised 9/19/06