Professional Learning Course List

Educating on climate change can feel daunting. This introduction will showcase how to embed climate change education in a simple way in your cross- curricular teaching.

Finding the balance between active hope and clear-eyed realism, while avoiding common pitfalls and embracing opportunities to inspire and empower young learners.

Tailored to your provincial or state expectations prepare how to learn outside to meet your curriculum expectations, including lesson planning and assessment

Dive deeper into meeting your provincial or state curriculum expectations while learning outside including lesson planning and assessment

Get ready for a fast paced workshop! I will provide you with outdoor curriculum linked ideas in every subject area and will explore differentiation across all grade levels. Participants will also learn about core routines to use with your learners outside and risk assessment. Join us for an outdoor session filled with activities that will help you get outside tomorrow. We will also share a large google doc filled with resources so you can revisit these activities and more.

Join professional outdoor learning fundraiser, Duncan Whittick, for a session to build a strategy to successfully fundraise for your outdoor or environmental learning project. Duncan will provide customized recommendations for the best grants, sponsorships, donations and other fundraising options, and will work with you to build a strategy for undertaking this in an efficient and effective way.

Gardening and Growing with students can be an excellent way to teach cross curricular subjects, have them connect to where their food comes from and feel empowered through hands-on learning. This workshop offers the 101 of starting to do simple, low barrier, no space gardening and growing with students

Do you have a dedicated school growing space or supportive administration to build one? This workshop will share how to go about building a school garden curriculum so that school year long learning and growing can occur.

How to prepare for outdoor learning success including risk assessments and parent and admin communication. Learn to implement, and practice taking your learning outdoors.

You’ve become more comfortable taking your learning outdoors, take the next steps to embed your practice into substantial academic success

Outdoor learning supports the wellbeing of educators and students. Learn ways to integrate outdoor learning into your day to build better health habits for your people

The goal of this workshop is to provide teachers with a holistic framework to explore Outdoor Learning while challenging social constructs. Sometimes when we engage in learning outside, we approach it from a position of power and dominance. How can we de-centre ourselves and learn from and with the Land? What other dominant narratives can we explore? Sexuality and gender? Animism? This workshop will support teachers to build capacity and confidence to challenge these social constructs. This workshop is suitable for K-7 teachers.

Delivered by our Indigenous Director of Indigenous Learning this workshop will share what is and how to connect to Indigenous Ways of Knowing in your education practice.

Delivered by our Indigenous Director of Indigenous Learning and non-Indigenous Director of Learning this workshop will share perspectives on how to act appropriately, honoring Indigenous Ways of Knowing as you progress in your Indigenous Learning practice.

An introduction to embedding outdoor learning as a way to connect to place, learning in, about and for your local nature and ecosystems with students. You don’t have to be an expert to go outside and educate.

What do we have? Why does it matter? Dive deeper into your local place and remove barriers to help your students connect to the world around them, build relationships and care about your specific, urban, suburban, or rural learning setting. No previous experience necessary! Learn how to apply this knowledge to cross-curricular education.

What is sustainability? How can we embed learning for and with the planet’s wellbeing into everyday teaching? How does this connect to other knowledge systems and make learning fun and engaging for students. Join this workshop to find out how!

Class projects that engage students in outdoor learning, community connections and hands-on creativity accelerate learning and provide superb cross-curricular learning opportunities. Find out how to participate and inspire students into sustainability action.

Water is life. Whether you are located in a water rich or scarce area, educating for and about water is an excellent way to build cross curricular success and student skills.

Water education can span English, Maths, Science, Humanities, Indigenous Learning and more. Whether you are testing tap and puddle water, snow banks or local river lakes, learn how to take students to learn with and from the water with simple water testing and project design that will have students engaged from start to finish.