Together with The Center for Ecoliteracy, Bioneers is pleased to offer this pre-conference intensive session as part of our 2008 Bioneers Conference.
- WHEN: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 9:00am - 5:00pm
- WHERE: Morning Keynote Presentation at Showcase Theater, Marin Center, San Rafael, CA. Afternoon workshops at the Embassy Suites Hotel, with field trips to select Marin County Schools.
- COST: Member - $150; Non-profit/Individual - $175; For-profit - $200. Lunch will be provided for all participants.
DESCRIPTION:
Center for Ecoliteracy and Bioneers Present
Eco Schools: Educating for Sustainable Communities
This special one-day intensive explores new initiatives to make K–12 education relevant to the environmental and social challenges of the next several decades. It is designed for educators, activists, parents, youth, the media and others who want to learn about best practices for “greening” schools, integrating ecological learning across the curriculum, and sustaining the natural and social communities in which schools exist.
The Center for Ecoliteracy, a foundation dedicated to education for sustainable living, is launching a nationwide ecoschools campaign and documenting the stories of ecoschools nationwide. Schools engaged in this vital new movement are helping students learn the critical principles and processes of sustainability, and participate in harmonizing the needs of their school and community with the natural world on which we depend.
This seminar, designed by the Center for Ecoliteracy, will explore the ecological and educational importance of these efforts; showcase exemplary schools; and reveal lessons learned. Speakers examine how members of an ecoschool community consider the larger impact of their decisions in areas such as building design, school food, purchasing policies, energy use and service learning. They discuss how staff and students honor interconnectedness and context, and how they integrate ecological awareness, understanding and practices throughout the curriculum and community.
This intensive features:
• Keynotes by internationally recognized educators Fritjof Capra and David Orr
• Presentations by Center for Ecoliteracy staff and education specialists
• Panel discussions with heads of schools, teachers and students
• Breakout sessions including workshops and small-group colloquies moderated by allied leaders on innovations in
campus design, food, gardens and community
• Optional field trips to model schools in the region
The Center for Ecoliteracy, www.ecoliteracy.org, which also developed the award-winning Rethinking School Lunch program, has helped define and represent the forefront of education for the environment for more than a decade.
Fritjof Capra, Cofounder of the Center for Ecoliteracy, is an international authority on systems thinking and author of bestselling books including The Tao of Physics, The Web of Life and The Science of Leonardo. He serves on the faculty of Schumacher College and lectures widely to lay and professional audiences.
David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, is one of the nation’s leading environmental educators. Center for Ecoliteracy board member and an international speaker, his books include Ecological Literacy, Earth in Mind and Design on the Edge.
Zenobia Barlow, Center for Ecoliteracy cofounder and executive director, and Michael K. Stone, senior editor, are co-editors of Ecoliteracy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World (from the Bioneers anthology book series).
