- Be inspired by and connect with champions for sustainability and place-based education in British Columbia
- Celebrate and share key ingredients for success
- Learn about new ideas, curriculum opportunities and professional development events
- Enjoy a selection of hors d’oeuvres and beverages
This meeting of educators and administrators from the Metro Vancouver region will bring together leaders to help vision and plan for our Metro Vancouver Leadership events and initiatives in 2019. Please visit our website or contact us at [email protected] for more details.
Contact Jonathan Dyck for more details.
7pm, Thursday October 18 – 12pm, Sunday October 21, 2018
St. Eugene Mission Resort, Ktunaxa Nation in BC’s Kootenay Rockies
THIS CONFERENCE IS NOW SOLD OUT
Please note that we are not taking a waiting list. However, we invite you to click here to register your interest in attending the EECOM 2019 Conference – May 10-12, 2019. Those who register their interest will be given one week’s advance notice of the conference so they can secure their spot before general registration opens.
Confirmed Partners and Presenters can click here to register.
Place in Education Symposium for B.C. Educators
Barkerville Historic Town, Sep. 27-29, 2018.
As always please bring along any fellow educators and/or outdoor enthusiasts interested in joining us, the more the merrier.
BC curriculum is changing. School districts and teachers are working hard to transform along with it. The Metro Vancouver Classrooms to Communities (C2C) Leadership Clinic is an immersive professional development opportunity for school district teams to advance community connected learning as a priority school district action strategy.
What’s in it for your school district / team?
- Focused time to develop action plans, team building and purposeful collaboration
- Relationship building and success sharing within and between school district teams
- Expertise, inspiration and support from colleagues and C2C community partners
- A unique setting in the heart of Crescent Beach – close to people and nature
Begins August 2018. Apply by March 30
This innovative MEd cohort program will engage participants in real-world projects enmeshed in questions of learning and scholarship.
This partnership program features an Adaptive Education model, which builds a pedagogical bridge that ties the project and classroom to the community. Participants will consult on, experiment with, and co-create solutions that address problems which come to light in the course of working with the City of Vancouver on sustainability priorities.
The unique structure of this program includes a body of advisers and experts that support classroom-based research projects and instructors who act as research designers to facilitate group projects with real-world outcomes. Participants will:
- develop a critical awareness of the concepts of education and sustainability, how they relate, and their implications;
- demonstrate their learning throughout the program, thereby increasing their employability;
- build their abilities to work with governments and other partners by collaborating with city staff on sustainability policies;
- embody the knowledge and skills associated with community building, political engagement, social movement participation, real-world research, design, dialogue, network building, and knowledge dissemination.
The Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) is hosting a Climate Change Education Workshop for educators from across the Columbia Basin. This will take place in Nelson on Saturday, March 3 and is just $20 for CBEEN members ($40 for non-members) and includes climate change education resources, a morning workshop by Columbia Basin Trust’s Climate Action Program, a national resource round-table over lunch with organizations like Green Teacher, Let’s Talk Energy and Green Learning Canada, and the BCTF ‘Climate Heroes’ workshop in the afternoon.
This workshop will help teachers to develop effective climate change education and is put on as a partnership between the Kootenay Lake Local Chapter of EEPSA, the BCTF, Columbia Basin Trust, Wildsight and CBEEN. More information and registration is here: http://cbeen.ca/climate-change/
It would be great if you could join us.
Join EEPSA and many others at the annual New Teacher’s Conference.
Join EEPSA and other community educators in the winter solstice celebration event. Share your ideas on key ingredients that lead to success within growing our communities.
More information to come soon.
In partnership with EEPSA, Science World, Classrooms to Communities, Metro Vancouver, and HCTF.
School district staff and community educators are invited to participate in the pilot ‘Classrooms to Communities’ Curriculum Implementation Workshop which will take place in 3 weeks at JL Crowe Secondary School in Trail on Monday, November 27.
This is an opportunity for teachers and community educators to come together to learn, share, connect and collaborate to support Place-based Learning within the context of the redesigned curriculum.
Registration opens middle of April. Get notified of when you can register.
Register early for the best rates!
Registration for Super Conference includes:
- Two full days overflowing with interactive, inspirational and highly applicable professional learning opportunities created by 25 BC PSAs.
- Over 30 remarkable keynote presentations on big ideas from every subject area, brain research, digital literacy, inclusion, and more.
- Your choice from hundreds of sessions offered in a variety of formats, including lectures and hands-on learning opportunities presented at Vancouver Convention Centre East, Pan Pacific Vancouver, Telus World of Science, and Stanley Park Ecology Society.
- Access to a massive Exhibitors Hall featuring the latest educational products and services.
- Unlimited networking opportunities with nearly 6,000 BC educators and education.
- Optional one-year membership to the PSA of your choice (additional charge).
World Environmental Education Congress – WEEC – is an international congress addressing education for environment and sustainable development. WEEC 2017 is the 9th congress and will take place September 9-15, 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The congress is an international meeting point for everyone working with education for environment and sustainable development or which have an interest in the field. WEEC 2017 is as such an opportunity to learn more about the latest in environmental and sustainability education, to discuss with people from all over the world, to share your own work and to learn from others. We are expecting participants from a wide range of countries. Are you maybe a researcher, educator, student, decision-maker, NGO or media working with or having an interest in education for environment and sustainable development, or are you just curious? Welcome!
The congress will discuss the role and importance of education for environment and sustainability at all levels; both in higher education and for lower ages.
Join K-12 educators, post-secondary educators, community partners, collaborators and champions for change at this regional network event:
- Be inspired by and connect with champions for environment and sustainability education in British Columbia
- Celebrate and exchange place-based education success stories
- Look ahead to 2017-2018 for new ideas, curriculum opportunities and professional development events
Enjoy a selection of hors d’oeuvres and beverages
Please register because space is limited.
Join EEPSA at their Annual General Meeting just before the Walking the Talk Connecting Classrooms to Communities event.
All members and potential members are welcome. This will be an opportunity to learn more about EEPSA, and to consider joining the board.
Eight of our School District 6 (Rocky Mountain) educators have just returned from the 2017 Leadership Clinic, and are renewed with energy and momentum. Our team was made up of three educators from the Kimberley zone (Dan Clark, Laurie Neeve, and Natasha Burgess), three from the Windermere zone (Tara Whittick, Hannah Garvie-Ransen, and Alyssan Gauthier), and two from the Golden zone (Sandra Beckett and Caren Nagao). The Leadership Clinic never seems to disappoint, and our team felt so empowered by our planning and networking time. This conference truly does ‘walk the talk’! Our Local Chapter of EEPSA, which can now be identified by the title, Rocky Mountain Place-Based Learning Network,wanted to express our gratitude for the support provided by EEPSA. The teachers who attended this clinic commented numerous times on the value of connecting and collaborating in such a beautiful space. Having the gift of time and space to explore ideas about where we want to go was so incredibly valuable, and there were many comments about how wonderful it is to have a group of like-minded educators to share ideas with. For a slideshow of photos from the 2017-18 Leadership Clinic, please use this link: https://animoto.com/play/zlXUQ0hk8SzqlfDBySXfOA. Our team has come away with ideas about a number of amazing professional development opportunities for the 2017-18 school year, so keep an eye out for messages from the Rocky Mountain Place-Based Learning Network!
