1. Educating for Sustainability, Applied lessons in Economics, Science and Civics

Course Description (Adaptable to 10 hour, 5 hour, or 2 hour workshop length):
Sustainability is the ethical imperative of our generation. Sustainable solutions are emerging in all sectors of human experience from biodiesel school busses to green building codes to zero waste. Educating for sustainability achieves four goals simultaneously; (1) it gives students a reason to apply academic excellence, (2) builds connections across the curriculum, (3) opens the classroom to the real-time needs of the community, and (4) improves the triple bottom line for the benefit of all.

Big Question: This course is a playful mix of direct experience, direct instruction and curriculum conversation. The key inquiry that organizes our journey is: "What are the effects of my daily actions in achieving sustainable prosperity? How do I know?"

By analyzing the big question we will explore the following content:

• Sustainability defined
• The Triple bottom line
• The Four Economies
• Ecological Economics; Nature's ecological services
• Sustainability projects in the school and community
• Aligning and integrating sustainability with academic subjects
• Indicators as ways to measure progress
• Reporting results to authentic audiences

Resource materials include:

• Readings on sustainability issues
• The Four Economies
• Sustainable Habits Survey
• Menu of sustainability projects
• Project design template
• Book list

What teachers will know and be able to do: (Course Objectives)

• Define sustainability.
• Understand how to apply indicators to measure progress.
• Integrate one or more sustainability projects across the curriculum.
• Facilitate students in designing effective projects.

2. Sustainable Schools Strategy Session

Course Description:
The after school "Sustainable Schools Strategy Update" is a 90-minute update and strategy session with administrators, board members, community partners, teachers, youth leaders, and staff from operations, maintenance, food service, purchasing, transportation, and curriculum. The purpose is explore issues and opportunities in educating for sustainability, notice what's already working, imagine next steps and build bridges to schools in sister watersheds around Salmon Nation.

Set up: Carpeted library with tables, whiteboard, overhead projector and screen or the same attributes in a large classroom.

3. Integration

Storytelling, Salmon, Science, and Sustainability

Course Description (Adaptable to 10 hour, 5 hour, or 2 hour workshop length):
Every successful teacher is a natural storyteller and every good story is an artfully integrated curriculum. Curriculum, well delivered, forms a dramatic story in the mind of the learner. This is how human beings make meaning. Tell me a story.

This workshop is fast, fun, practical, and ancient. In our bioregion, Salmon Nation, people have been telling this story since the first salmon ceremony thousands of years ago. Today, the new teaching legend is sustainable prosperity. Salmon are an indicator. What are the chapters in this old/new story? How do you build curriculum around a powerful narrative? How do you act out such a story without students acting up, or trivializing concepts in a cartoon skit? Participants learn top tips for how to manage the moment, deepen the experience, and apply academic excellence in the real-world context of community problem solving. The salmon story leads us to think like better scientists and better citizens.

Big Question: This course is a playful mix of direct experience, direct instruction and curriculum conversation. Our journey is organized around the question. "How are salmon and people interdependent in the history and future of our bioregion?"

Using drama, writing, cartography, and conversation circles we will explore the following content:

• The Spawning Story
• The Watershed Story
• Salmon Adaptations in the Watershed
• Human Adaptations in the Watershed
• Indigenous Economic Patterns
• Industrial Economic Patterns
• Sustainable Economic Patterns

Resources materials include:

• Sample integrated curriculum maps and guidelines for developing essential questions
• Rubrics for measuring skills in acting, vocal projection, and quality research
• Salmon Boy; a classroom play with parts for 25 performers
• Collection of salmon poetry
• Readings on salmon science and sustainability
• The Salmon Science Challenge
• The Four Economies
• Book list

What teachers will know and be able to do: (Course Objectives)

• Create an integrated curriculum map for salmon, science and sustainability.
• Facilitate students in building a good story around key concepts.
• Assess student skills using rubrics in acting, vocal projection, and quality research.

4. Salmon, Science and the Six Traits of Writing

Course Description (Adaptable to 10 hour, 5 hour, or 2 hour workshop length):
In this course teachers refine their knowledge of the six traits of writing while at the same time deepening their understanding of salmon and watershed science. Teachers will be provided with a delicious packet of excellent models from the diverse literature on salmon and watershed issues. Selections will include poetry, narrative, expository, persuasive, news articles and scientific reports. The course will focus on the delight of words, the rhythm of sentences, the clarity and passion of voice and the organization of ideas for diverse audiences. In addition to analyzing writing traits within the literature provided, participants compose their own writing samples and design applications for classroom use. Salmon, science and stewardship have never been so interesting. What better way to meet standards than by diving into the Homeric story of salmon and people in the Pacific Northwest. The workshop begins with an evening of storytelling and readings from great writing, followed by a day-long session featuring hands-on problem solving, design, application, and reflection. This course is well suited for teachers working with grades 4-12, but all teachers who love words will be engaged.

What teachers will know and be able to do: (Course Objectives)
As a result of taking this course, participants will learn:

• The six traits of writing
• Fascinating background on salmon science and watershed issues
• How to inspire and guide students in analyzing real world writing samples