Do you want to create project-based curriculum that supports all learners to engage, achieve, and contribute to healthy future?
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In partnership with the University of Michigan School of Education, CCES is offering a hands-on, 2-day master class. The class provides knowledge, skills, and a step-wise process to develop curriculum grounded in the concepts of healthy communities, democratic societies, and social justice.
Change your curriculum to change students’ lives.
Starting with either existing or planned curriculum, you’ll receive guidance to develop or redesign a unit or course that engages students in authentic problem-solving while also meeting required standards and content. We know you care about connecting educational equity and community well-being, and this workshop will give you tools to put that into practice and change your students’ lives.
Participants will:
- Gain a fresh, interdisciplinary understanding of their curriculum
- (Re)design a unit or course sequenced to promote engagement, inquiry, decision-making, and positive action.
- Apply a “backwards design” process to align outcomes, instruction, and assessment.
- Receive an instructional design booklet with support tools and frameworks for the participant’s individual classroom use.
- Earn 12 Michigan SCECHs (State Continuing Education Clock Hours).
Who should attend?
- Individual pre- or in-service teachers in any discipline or grade who are interested in democratic education, place-based education, sustainability education, culturally-responsive teaching, and related approaches.
- Teams of educators from the same institution interested in more systemic change.
- University professors from any discipline who are interested in integrating sustainability, social justice, and experiential learning into their courses.
- Curriculum leaders seeking to learn about fresh approaches to improving instruction.
What is the cost?
- $169
- Reduced price for current or former U of M students: $75
This is more of a question that a comment. Will this course be able to address sustainable finance (from an investment and business perspective?)
This program provides content and tools to help instructors 1) see their discipline through a sustainability lens, and then 2) adapt a planned or existing course based on this. There will not be explicit instruction on finance given the master class draws people from across disciplines. Rather, the course will help you strengthen the sustainability lens and improve the pedagogy of your course. The idea is that you’re already the expert in your area — the course helps you build on that to improve teaching and learning. Over the past 20 years, participants have come from every discipline imaginable — from arts to business to science to humanities to physical education.
Is there any financial assistance available?
Although we do not have financial assistance, we have priced the program at a lower rate than comparable PD. I recommend checking with the WISD, which has already registered (and is paying for) several people. You might also check with your district. Please let me know if you have further questions: santone at creativechange dot net. Thanks!