CCS Trainings
California Association of Science Educators Conference Recap
Youth Education Program Manager, Peggy Harte, recently presented a short course on campus-based monitoring at the California Association of Science Educators’ (CASE) conference. Presenting alongside Chris Griesemer (Director of the Sacramento Area Science Project) the course highlighted ways educators can use their school campus to examine local phenomena and engage youth in nature monitoring programs through participatory science.
Training: Sources of Justice at Yosemite National Park
July 15-19, 2024
July 15-19, 2024
Yosemite National Park
Sources of Justice at Yosemite National Park is designed for 3rd and 4th grade California teachers. This week-long immersive experience weaves together environmental justice, science, history, and Ethnic Studies through hands-on learning and a stewardship project. This unique interdisciplinary professional learning program will enhance your teaching practice in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Yosemite National Park!
Training: Stewardship of the Wintun/Patwin Homelands
July 30-August 2, 2024
July 30-August 2, 2024
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Training: Teaching ELD Through Science
June 11-12, 2024
June 11-12, 2024
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Solano County Office of Education
5100 Business Center Drive
Fairfield, CA 94534
NOAA Ocean Guardian School & California B-WET Conference
May 10-11, 2024
This May, Peggy Harte presented at the NOAA California B-WET and Ocean Guardian School Conference, which was the first CA B-WET conference in over a decade! This conference was a great opportunity to network with other B-WET recipients in California and revitalize your passion and commitment to ocean and climate education. This CA B-WET Conference offered opportunities for educators to learn more about current trends in climate literacy, cultural engagement, and marine research, all while offering unique insight into how to engage students in climate action and hope for change.
2024 High School Pre-Health Symposium
April 13, 2024
This April, with up to 400 attendees, the 2024 High School Pre-Health Symposium offered high school students a valuable opportunity to delve into the diverse field of health professions. With the chance to interact with health professionals, advisors, and fellow students, attendees gained insights into potential career paths and discovered actionable steps they can take during high school to pursue their interests in healthcare at an early age.
Salmonid Restoration Conference
March 26-29, 2024
Peggy Harte will be presented the Spinning Salmon Project alongside collaborating research partners at the Salmonid Restoration Conference in Santa Rosa. The Salmonid Restoration Conference is a unique platform for professionals, academics, and scientists to showcase their research and address key issues impacting salmonid habitats among people in their field. High school students are able to gain opportunities within Citizen Science, such as investigating Thiamine Deficiency Complex (TDC) alongside researchers.
California Association of Teachers of English
February 29-March 2, 2024
Peggy will be in Los Angeles for the California Association of Teachers of English. Peggy will be presenting alongside our collaborators at the California Environmental Literacy Initiative, focusing on ways in which environmental literacy can be used to support deepening engagement with English Language Arts skills, including student voice.
Spring Staff Sightings
Follow the Center's trainings, webinars, and presentations
Catch us if you can! Find our faculty, staff, and students at these events this spring.
Workshop: Using Community Science Apps to Study and Support Nature Near You
February 24, 2024
Conservation in Your Pocket: Using
Community Science Apps to Study and Support Nature Near You
Saturday, February 24, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Effie Yeaw Nature Center
Register here
Learn how to use apps to support Citizen Science in Conservation Fellow, Sage Madden, and UC Davis graduate students studying a local songbird!
Professional Learning Opportunity: Get Back Time By Forefronting Science
April 20, 2021
This workshop highlighted ways in which elementary teachers can plan for science even with limited time for student contact by forefronting science within integrated lessons. We explored the Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) and look at ways the EP&Cs have been integrated into other content area frameworks. Participants left with a co-designed grade level resource to allow for integrated unit planning that places science at the core.
3-Day Institute prepares educators for real science in the garden with students
We are still glowing from our three days of shared learning, planning, and camaraderie with local partners, teachers, after-school educators, school garden coordinators. With thanks to our partner, Yolo Farm to Fork, who developed the article below, we offer some initial insights from this workshop, with more to come in the near future!
Reflecting on our Woolman Center workshop
Named after a mythical land from a novela when the Spanish first arrived, California was said to be paradise on Earth. However, times have changed since the Spanish first laid their eyes on the place we now call home. Social activists have spoken openly about the disasters of environmental change and many, from the top of California’s government to grassroots organizations are beginning to create much more systematic and widespread awareness and change with initiatives.
Sharing Community & Citizen Science with Local Educators
In February, we teamed up with Pepperwood Preserve and Sonoma County K-5th grade educators to run a workshop on how to facilitate community and citizen science in the classroom. Activities included observational sketching, a mini bioblitz, and sharing the YCCS Environmental Science Agency framework. Educators left eager and equip to try out new projects in creative ways with their students.
