Learning Objectives - Participants will:

• Become familiar with improve our local environment through landscape design 

• Build understanding and content knowledge about different types of low impact landscape design projects that enhance the environment and water quality such as rain gardens and ecological restoration and how these projects can be connected to your teaching

• Practice using tools and resources to guide site analysis, design and implementation of student-led action projects that landscape design activities that are appropriate to your local context

• Identify community partners and resources to support your project- and place-based stewardship education practice both in and outside of the classroom

• Learn processes that support students becoming active and engaged participants in and stewards of their communities 

Learning Objectives - Participants will:

• Explore the concept of social-ecological systems framework and how to connect it to locally relevant issues and topics in the classroom

• Build understanding and content knowledge around environmental justice, climate change, and climate justice and apply that understanding toward place-based stewardship education (PBSE) teaching practice

• Learn to analyze local environmental issues using root cause analysis

• Practice using an environmental and social justice framework to envision community-based solutions that address complex environmental issues 

• Connect with community partners and resources to support place-based education both in and outside of the classroom

• Learn processes that support students becoming active and engaged participants in and stewards of their communities