Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project What is Education for Sustainability?

What does EFS mean to you? Interconnected activity-pick two people, keep them in your line of sight, slowly start moving, keeping them in your sight. What happened? Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project

Sustainability

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project By sustainability we mean: “improving quality of life—economically, socially, and environmentally—for all, now and for future generations.”

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Explicit and Implicit EFS

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project The Big Ideas of Sustainability Ability to make a difference Change over time Community Cycles Diversity Equilibrium Equity/Fairness Interdependence Limits Long-term effects Multiple Perspectives Place Systems

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project What are you doing that is successful? Partner talk- –talk with someone you don’t work with about a unit, theme that you’ve done in your class that has been really successful. –What made it successful? –How did you know it was successful? –We’ll share a few of these stories. –How can we deepen, enrich these experiences using the lens of sustainability?

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Big Ideas and Essential Questions Community: What is a community? Interdependence: What can communities learn from natural systems to improve our common future? Cycles: What cycles are we a part of? Change over time: How do living things adapt to changes in their environment? Fairness / Equity: How should we balance the rights of individuals with the common good? Place: How does where we live impact how we live? Ability to make a difference: How do individuals’ choices affect themselves, their communities, and the world? Long-term effects: In what ways does how we live today impact how people live in the future?

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project K-12 Scope & Sequence of the Big Ideas of Sustainability

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Playing with the Promising Practices Take an envelope with the Promising Practices of EFS in ECE With your group, organize these practices so they make sense to your group. Display them in any manner you wish. Please make note of what you feel is missing, redundant, and/or any feedback. Share with the larger group.

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Promising Practices Promising Practice 1- The curriculum is integrated, and place-based. Promising Practice 2- Learning and curriculum are play-based and emergent. Promising Practice 3- Sustainability is a lens. Promising Practice 4- The campus and classroom demonstrate and practice sustainability. Promising Practice 5- Young children explore their connection to and relationship with the natural and built world through developmentally appropriate Big Ideas of Sustainability.

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Promising Practices Promising Practice 6- Young children have a voice, make decisions, and draw connections between their choices and the impact on their worlds. Promising Practice 7- Local and cultural perspectives are considered and learned through building healthy relationships with family, classroom, and community. Promising Practice 8- Learning is relevant and connected to children’s lives. Promising Practice 9- Students practice inquiry and open-ended questioning. Promising Practice 10- Anti-bias, equity, and justice are the foundation of our teaching

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Placed-Based Education

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Nature, Food & Community

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Moving from Wonder to Action Special thanks to our colleague, Ewa Smuk, in Poland for helping us develop this graphic.

Nature

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Nature

Food

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Food

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Food

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Food

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Food

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Community

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Community

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Facilitated Learning Opportunities Corn Dress Up A Bean Plant The Fabulous Five Seed Scavenger Hunt Wonderful Wheat

Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project Reflection on the workshop On the triangle, write 3 ideas you want to remember. What ‘squared’ with my beliefs, my practice? Jot down four ideas. Circles questions circling around my head! Write them in the circle!

Resources Linda Wellings, Early Childhood Coordinator, Shelburne Farms, or 802

More resources Project Seasons by Deborah Parella The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola Corn by Gail Gibbons I Like Corn by Robin Pickering Corn-On and Off the Cob by Allan Fowler Good Bread A Book of Thanks by Brigitte Weninger and Anne Moller Bread Is For Eating by David & Phillis Gershator Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven And the Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin How Groundhog’s Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry Planting the Wild Garden by Kathryn O. Galbraith Compost Stew by Mary McKenna Siddals Our School Garden by Rick Swann I Took A Walk by Henry Cole Hair by Kate Pelty Our Grandparents-A Global Album by Maya Ajmera, Sheila Kinkade, Cynthia Pon I Am Freedom’s Child by Bill Martin Jr.