EXPAND YOUR PRACTICE

EVERYONE

• Create another version of your seed image/collage with any medium and process you want to inspired by Pia Wortham's work

• Read/Review the Environmental Literacy Principals, from the California Education and the Environment Initiative

• Continue Your Bird Journals

Optional

• Check out Isha Clarke and Youth Vs. Apocalypse's Campaign to encourage CAL PERS to divest from the fossil fuel industry

• Check out Kirsten Bramstedt (Encinal HS) student responses to exploring decolonizing our minds

• Check out the exhibition on artist books at Center for the Book: Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment

• Check out Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, where you can contribute to the rematriation of local native lands though Shuumi Land Tax

• Check out the Alameda Native History Project

EVERYONE

• Finish your 3/2/1 Bridge reiterative practice/cycle of inquiry from today's session

• Continue Your Bird Journals

  • Check out these apps from Cornell Labs:

    • Merlin: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

    • BirdNET: https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

Optional

• Thurs. April 15th, 3-4:15pm. Attend ACOE's Strategies from the Bay Area: Arts, Anti-Racism, & Climate Change event for Educators & Administrators

• April 22nd. Celebrate Earth Day! See second to last slide from April 8 for ideas.

• By May 23rd. Register for the 2021 Summer Fellowship for Teachers on Race and Housing in the Bay Area

EVERYONE

• Finish your MAKING/Memory hand project inspired by prompt questions from Lindsey and Constance

• Continue your BIRD JOURNALS! Check out the Bird Resources page!

• Continue reflecting on: Studio Habits in your classroom - Where do you see them? What one habit can you introduce to students and begin to explore with them. For experienced SHoMers: What new understanding around SHoM is coming into play in the virtual world?
  

Optional

• • Read about the lives of the people who lost their lives in the Atlanta Shooting

    1. 1. What we know about the victims of the Atlanta shootings, VOX News

       2. Hard workers, dedicated mothers, striving immigrants: These are the 8 people killed in the Atlanta area spa shootings USA Today

       3. Ignoring the History of Anti-Asian Racism Is Another Form of Violence - From Elle Mag., this piece by Dr. Connie Wun, co-founder of AAPI Women Lead organization (AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islanders) and a researcher on violence against girls of color, from Oakland, California.

       4. How Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Uses Art to Battle Anti-Asian Hate

• Keep informed about Den Haaland’s Leadership:

  • 1. Check out her full opening statement at her confirmation hearing (6 mintues)

    2. checking out new policies and updates on the Department of the Interrior’s website

EVERYONE

• BIRD JOURNALS!

  • Watch Introduction — Unfolding Practice: Accordion Book Project with ARZU Mistry - watch the first video about to start your book then the others as you want to

• Check out the Bird Resources page!

• Come to our next Session on March 25th with some ideas and methods to share!

• Continue reflecting on: Studio Habits of Mind in your classroom - Where do you see them? What one habit can you introduce to students and begin to explore with them? For experienced SHoMers: What new understandings around SHoM are coming into play in the virtual world? How does the Studio Thinking Framework of Demo/Students at Work/Critique/ Exhibition show up in online learning spaces?

• Capture ways that you incorporate peer feedback into your teaching. Is there anything you will shift or anything you have shifted in the past inspired by Austin’s Butterfly?

• Check out the Celebrating Black Environmental Leaders page!

TREES

1. • Reflect - How did it feel to step into a mentorship role by sharing your learning and experience?

SAPLINGS

1. • Continue to reflect on Studio Habits of Mind in your classroom - Where you see them? What habit can you introduce to students and begin to explore with them? For experienced SHoMers: What new understandings around SHoM are coming into play in the virtual world?

   • Bring your reflections to our next class.

EVERYONE

• Watch: Artist Jenny O’Dell talks about watching birds

TREES

1. • Work on our engagement/presentations

SAPLINGS

1. • Studio Habits of Mind in your classroom - Where you see them? What habit can you introduce to students and begin to explore with them? For experienced SHoMers: What new understandings around SHoM are coming into play in the virtual world?

   • Bring your reflections to our next class.

EVERYONE

• Listen to the podcast On Being with Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer

1. Student Inquiry:

   • For your students: What are 3 ideas and 2 questions that they have about our changing environment/climate change/climate justice?

   • Record their responses (you choose how: Padlet, Seesaw, Flipgrid, pen & ink, Tik Tok, Google Form, etc )

   • Bring their recorded responses to class to share on Dec 10th.
     

2. Teaching Inquiry - Take time between now and Dec 10th to reflect:

• Consider the artist Otobong Nkanga we watched today, your own earth story and reflecting on your students' responses: What questions do these bring up for you? How will it inform your teaching and learning? What more do you need to know?

• We’ll share these reflections in December 10th

3. We have created a folder in our google drive for you to add the images of your earth/nature story maps you made (we need to collect documentation!) You can find that here. Just take a good snap shot with your camera and upload!

Optional - What activity or practice from our first day together might you try out in your class with your students?