Environmental Leadership Program

My Role

My role within developing the above curriculum is founded upon the Learning in Places Frameworks, which combines socioecological systems, culture and community, and place-based learning with scientific observations. I dove deeply into nine of these frameworks, including, Nature Cultural-Relations, and Socioecological Histories of Place and weaved the knowledge into our co-designed classroom lessons and field trip lesson plan. 

Additionally, I supported my team in fostering implementation of children's passions into the second-grade curriculum. Singing and dancing are considered 'children's passion' as all children across all cultures and backgrounds engage in that form of play. When adapting this curriculum, I wanted to explore a deeper exploration of children's passions and thus developed "The Dougie Song" (Appendix C).  This song guides students through the five layers of Douglas-fir Forest and addresses different biodiverse species we may find. This development allowed the flow of our curriculum to be cyclical, and repetitive, allowing space students to engage with their natural form of play while meeting Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) learning outcomes.

Lastly, I managed a majority of team communications between community partners and assisted with communications between team managers. This included logistics of field trips, classroom lessons, and community event planning. The success of this project was completely due to the collaboration of the team. There was constant communication between team members, team managers, and community partners. The Environmental Leadership Program creates a space for supported professional development, which I am very grateful for.