SPRING 2023:
GLSI/Mi-STAR PBE Professional Learning Community
Join Discovering PLACE for the GLSI/Mi-STAR Place-Based Education PLC for educators using MiSTAR Unit 8.7: "Living in Greenhouse Earth: Global Climate Change"
The Virtual PLC will be hosted virtually in spring 2023 (Feb. to May : dates/times TBD by participants)
The GLSI/Mi-STAR Place-Based Education Professional Learning Community (PLC) is designed to help teachers experience place-based education by integrating it into a single unit of familiar curriculum. This program will provide professional development and coaching. Participants will be supported by the combined resources of a Mi-STAR Professional Learning Facilitator (PLF) and Discovering PLACE staff. The facilitators will assist educators in integrating locally relevant topics and community partners into Mi-STAR Unit 8.7 which focuses on Climate Change.
The PLC will consist of eight (8) PLC meetings lasting 75 minutes each. The PLC meetings will be scheduled from February to May (specific dates and times to be determined based on participants availability).
The PLC is designed to help educators:
Implement the Mi-STAR Unit 8.7 "Living in Greenhouse Earth: Global Climate Change" with students
Infuse local people, themes, and resources into the unit
Identify community partners whose employment or expertise ties to the unit
Identify opportunities to see the unit’s themes and phenomena at work in the community
Plan to engage students in a local action project to benefit the environment in the community
This PLC offers educators:
A stipend of $300 for full participation
Access to a mini-grant of up to $400 to pay for equipment, supplies, transportation, or other costs of a project to benefit the environment in your community.
Up to 4 hours of individual coaching from a staff member of your local GLSI hub
Up to 12 SCECHs
This opportunity is made possible thanks to the support of MiSTEM Network Region 6.
GLSI/Mi-STAR PBE PLCs were first piloted in Michigan in 2022. They were developed through a partnership between Mi-STAR at Michigan Technological University and the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (GLSI) with support from the MiSTEM Advisory Council.
This video features teachers and eighth graders from Armstrong Middle School in the Kearsley School District who partnered with the Genesee County Parks’ For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum to add PBE to Mi-STAR Unit 8.7.
These materials were developed under a MiSTEM Network grant awarded by the Michigan Department of Education and with support from our partners at the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative and Mi-STAR at Michigan Technological University.