Cultivating Hopeful Abundance and Practicing Experiential Ecology – Teacher Training

Join the educators from Know yOUR Land Consulting, Wild Seed Project, and Maine Organic Farmer’s and Gardener’s Association at the MOFGA Fairgrounds in Unity, ME for a two-day professional development intensive for teachers and educators to increase skills and comfort for outdoor teaching. The program will be facilitated in partnership by Kathy Pollard and Ann Pollard-Ranco (Penobscot citizen), of Know yOUR Land Consulting; Nell Houde, the Wild Seed Project Educational Programs Manager; and Madi Whaley, MOFGA’s Educational Programs Coordinator. Together, they will guide teachers and educators through lessons about decolonizing the language of environmental education, building safety and belonging in the natural world, and fostering relationships with Maine’s flora and fauna. By the end of the training, educators should feel equipped with expanded language to describe place-based relationships, ideas and resources for building outdoor education spaces focusing on hopeful abundance at their schools, and new curriculum to try! This training will also provide teachers with resources that will help them integrate Wabanaki studies into environmental education to help schools meet state requirement LD 291 for teaching Wabanaki studies. 

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