- Michael Pollan
Bioneers is a thriving network of visionary innovators who are working with nature to heal nature and offer practical solutions for restoring the Earth and people. A core component of this network is a community of educators, working to bring these concepts and solutions into the classrooms, schools and institutions that they call home. We’re honored and excited to be able to provide inspirational and practical materials and events that educators can utilize to help nourish the next generation of bioneers.
The following section is a quick guide to how you can get the most out of this website and Bioneers. As an educator, there are several ways that we invite you to interact with Bioneers.
What is available at Bioneers.org?
The Education section of the website, www.bioneers.org/education, serves as a home for educators on the Bioneers website, featuring news and articles directly relevant to educators. We encourage you to explore the rest of the website from your perspective as an educator, including our featured interest areas including Food and Farming, Youth Leadership, Ecological Design and others.
Bring yourself or your class to a Bioneers Conference near you
The Bioneers Conference is an amazing learning opportunity for students and teachers alike. We encourage teachers and their classes to attend as groups. Scholarships are available for individual educators under the age of 30 and for educators attending with their classes. The Bioneers Conference can also fill professional development requirements, through our CEU partnership with San Francisco State University.
- For more information on the Bioneers Conference: www.bioneers.org/conference
- To find a local Satellite Conference in your region, visit: beaming.bioneers.org
- For more information on available scholarships, click here
- For info on Continuing Education Hours, click here
Bring Bioneers into your classroom
Video and Audio Materials:
Some of the most insightful and brilliant thinkers of our generation regularly speak at the Bioneers Conference leading to a vast archive of video presentations and an award winning radio series. These highly accessible 30-minute presentations on a wide range of social and environmental issues are a great way to begin or deepen in-class discussions.
“I teach a course on Sustainable Living at Utah State University that uses the Bioneers videos quite a bit. I find them to be great discussion starters, and they are nice, thought-provoking introductions to a wide array of environmental topics. I think they would also be great in a survey course where you don't have time to do lengthy readings on each topic.”- Kerry Case, Utah State University
The Bioneers Book Series:
This growing collection offers inspiring stories and essays by Bioneers visionaries and activists at the forefront of environmental and social restoration. These foundational works are increasingly finding their way into classrooms and educational institutions.
“The students in my Ecological Design classes just love Nature’s Operating Instructions as a text.”
- John Todd, visionary ecological designer and Distinguished Lecturer at University of Vermont, Burlington.
Visit Teaching Bioneers for more ideas and examples.
Help Others Bring Bioneers Into Their Classrooms
Visit Teaching Bioneers to explore, create, upload and share your lesson plans, curricula, comments and feedback. Explore the educational resources already created and generously shared by teachers and professors from around the country. Find something that will work for your class? Borrow it and let the community know how it worked. Created something on your own? Share it with the rest of us.
Propose an article or interview for the Education section of Bioneers.org
This space is for you. Do you have an article that you’ve been itching to write? A mentor, thinker or bioneer that you’d love to get the chance to interview from your perspective as a teacher? We work with a number of partner organizations to create content for this website and invite you, the Bioneers Educator's Community, to contribute your stories and ideas to this space. Send an e-mail to education(at)bioneers.org with any thoughts, questions or ideas that you have.
The compelling stories of the Bioneers — told at our annual conference and simultaneous satellite conferences across North America, and in our radio and book series — demonstrate over and over how great a difference one individual can make.
- Kenny Ausubel, founder of Bioneers
