GREEN CURRICULUM INSTITUTE
A Special Session for Educators at the Schools Summit!

October 18, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Discover how to incorporate concepts, principles, practices and technologies related to sustainability into your classroom curriculum!

Get a glimpse of the green tech future and the opportunities it will bring to your students!

With increasing interest in linked learning and national common core standards, K-12 schools are beginning to focus more real-world application and careers. California’s landmark Education and the Environment (EEI) curriculum offers a unique and powerful tool to make these connections and to develop environmental literacy within the context of existing curriculum requirements.

This K-12 curriculum is formally approved by the State Board of Education for use in classrooms statewide. It contains 85 individual units that are aligned to more than 100 selected Science and History-Social Science academic content standards, while supporting English Language Arts standards for Kindergarten through 12th grade.

The EEI Curriculum is poised to implement and has the potential to:

• increase environmental literacy
• help millions of students become informed decision-makers
• advance tomorrow's leaders in a changing economy
• reach more than 6.2 million students and 150,000 teachers in California
• serve as a model across the nation and internationally
• help prepare today’s students to become future scientists, economists, and green technology leaders

The Green Curriculum Institute at the 2011 Green California Schools Summit will be a day-long event devoted to helping teachers understand how they can effectively use the rich collection of EEI resources.

Curriculum specialists and teachers will become familiar with all elements of the EEI Units, and learn how many of these elements can be incorporated in their current curriculum even if they are not yet ready or do not wish to use a Unit in its entirety.

Get the materials!

Through a grant from Annenberg Learner, all participants will receive a complete set of the EEI materials on DVD!

Detailed Agenda

9:00-9:30
Keynote - Charles Saylan, Executive Director, Ocean Conservation Society
Charles Saylan is the executive director and co-founder of the Ocean Conservation Society, which works to help protect ocean ecosystems through scientific research, education and public outreach. He is the author, with Daniel T. Blumstein, of The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It), published by the University of California Press.

9:30-10:00
Orientation to the Institute and the Day’s Schedule
Dave Hendry, Director of Teacher Institutes, Green Technology

Overview of EEI
Bryan Ehlers, Assistant Secretary, California Environmental Protection Agency
Led by the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Department of Education, and many partners, The Education and the Environment Initiative aims to reach more than 6.2 million students and 150,000 teachers in California with a curriculum that is the first of its kind in the nation: the only environment-based instructional material formally approved by a State Board of Education for use in K-12 classrooms statewide.

10:00 – 11:30 am
Panel: Our Green Future

Speakers:
Janet Hartin, UC Cooperative Extension - The how and why of school gardens, in the context of the expansion of urban agriculture and its role in the next generation of sustainable food supply.
Janet Hartin is a nationally-recognized expert on sustainable landscape practices (irrigation and water management, greenwaste recycling and compost use, and integrated pest management stressing prevention) and has served as University of California Environmental Horticulturist for San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties since 1984. She currently serves as the Associate Editor for Environmental Horticulture for the University of California Division of Agriculture (ANR) and Natural Resources; serves on the statewide Master Gardener Steering Committee; serves on the UC ANR Peer Review Committee; and, is University of California Chairperson for the annual Turf and Landscape Institute.

John Dale, Harley Ellis Devereaux - The future of sustainable design.
John Dale is Principal and Education Studio Leader at Harley Ellis Devereaux, and a member of American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows. His educational projects have been honored with numerous awards. He has lectured and taken part in symposia at MIT, UCLA, USC, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His articles and projects have appeared in books and monographs as well as journals, including, Spazio e Società/ Space and Society Magazine, Architectural Record, and the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Newsletter. He has been Chair of the Urban Design Committee and a member of the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA and the California Council of the AIA, and is Chair of the Building Committee and Board Member of the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.

Dr. David M. Tralli, Director, Program Development for Terrestrial Power Technologies, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology – Cutting edge developments in energy technology
Dr. Tralli has been with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology since 1986. He is currently Manager of Civil Programs in the National Technology Applications Office (NSTA).  NSTA offers organizations and federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, opportunities to apply the unique scientific, technological and engineering capabilities resident at JPL to help meet their strategic visions and requirements. Dr. Tralli is the Project Manager for a study entitled “Roadmapping the California Smart Grid through Risk Retirement,” for the California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research Program, Defining the Pathway to the California Smart Grid 2020.

11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
During the lunch break, and for the remainder of the afternoon, a Green Curriculum Showcase will be open in the Institute meeting room. Organized by CREEC (the California Regional Environmental Education Community), the Showcase will offer attendees a chance to review a range of green curriculum resources, including EEI.

12:30 – 2:00
Breakout workshops: grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12
These workshops will explore the resources that are available in the EEI units by grade level and subject, and strategies for integration of these resources, ranging from full adoption to selective use in current standards-based curriculum.

2:15-3:30
Performance of understanding
Participants will work in groups organized by school type (elementary/middle school/high school), and drawing upon what they have learned throughout the day, design a sustainable school of the future.

Who Should Attend?

• Teachers with an interest in incorporating sustainability concepts, principles and practices in their curriculum
• Curriculum Specialists
• Instructional Leaders
• Representatives of organizations with an interest in implementing sustainability curriculum in the K-12 sector.
• Grade 9-12 students (if accompanying a teacher)

Registration questions? Call 626.577.5700