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LSF's Quarterly Newsletter
Spring 2011 | | |
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Greetings!
 Spring is finally really here, and summer is just around the corner. This has us thinking about getting kids outdoors. Step Outside will help you with that. To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, Learning for a Sustainable Future will be hosting the What's Worth Knowing: Health and the Environment Symposium November 16th in Toronto. More information about this event coming soon! LSF is excited to be releasing the Executive Summary of Connecting the Dots: 7 Learning Strategies for Environmental Education, Citizenship and Sustainability. This important guide for implementing ESD in the classroom will help you inspire responsible and active citizens. This month's newsletter also includes the following highlights:
Enjoy,
Pamela Schwartzberg
Executive Director
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 Connecting the Dots - Executive Summary Released
Key Learning Strategies for Environmental Education, Citizenship and Sustainability
 Connecting the Dots focuses on learning strategies and the ways of organizing learning experiences; the "how to" of learning. These learning strategies involve students as engaged learners, learning within the context of their communities and addressing relevant, local issues.
The learning strategies advanced in Connecting the Dots are not new. They are common to environmental education and many other fields of educational research and practice. What is new is the means by which these strategies can be used to connect the many dots that are necessary to inspire engaged, responsible and active citizens.
The Seven Strategies are:- Learning Locally: Community as Classroom
- Integrated Learning
- Acting on Learning
- Real-World Connections
- Considering Alternative Perspectives
- Inquiry
- Sharing Responsibility for Learning with Students
Check out the Connecting the Dots webpage to learn more or download the Executive Summary!
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Learning for a Sustainable Future is excited to once again be partnered with Grand & Toy to bring teachers the recognition they deserve with "A Day Made Better". Exceptional teachers, those that always go that extra mile, can be nominated to win: $1500 IN SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND A NEW ERGONOMIC CHAIR For the third year in a row, Grand & Toy is making October 4, 2011: A Day Made Better in schools all across Canada. On this one day, at the same time from coast to coast, Grand & Toy representatives will arrive at schools to surprise winning teachers!! The goal is to have at least 20 winners selected from your submissions. So it all starts with a nomination from you!
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Resources for Rethinking (R4R.ca)  R4R.ca has a new search feature. You can now refine your search to include only R4R resources with an Action Project component!! Use the "Display only Action Projects" check-box. Monthly Feature: International Day for Biological Diversity was May 22nd, 2011. View the R4R resources to bring this important issue into your classroom. New R4R Resources:
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 Step Outside
Your Guide to Nature's Events
Spring is the perfect time to take your students outside. Step Outside will help you take your students on a field trip without ever leaving the school yard!! All guides are linked to R4R resources which will help you extend the learning - and make the curriculum connections. The latest guides are:Visit www.r4r.ca/step-outside to sign up for the guides. |
 Project FLOW
For the Love Of Water
Project FLOW engages students to be stewards of our water resources.
Check out the 38 R4R water resources with an action component and start taking action about water today!
For more on Project FLOW, see www.r4r.ca/project-flow. |
SEdA has a new Website
Integrating Sustainability into Formal Education
The Sustainability and Education Academy has just launched a new website. You can check it out at www.yorku.ca/seda SEdA held in Saskatchewan in early May LSF, in collaboration with York University's Faculty of Education and the UNESCO Chair in "Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability" just held a Senior Education Leaders seminar in Saskatchewan from May 1 - 4, 2011. This seminar equiped senior education officials from Saskatchewan school divisions to lead the integration of sustainability as a core value in all aspects of formal education. International ESD leaders from Sweden, the UK and the US also participated. For more information on SEdA contact info@lsf-lst.ca |
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| EcoLeague™
Linking Education to Action
EcoLeague has a new website! The program can now be found at www.r4r.ca/ecoleague With this move, all LSF programs for teachers are now housed on R4R. Upcoming Youth Forum in London: Attention all London area teachers! LSF will be hosting an EcoLeague Youth Forum in the fall of 2011, thanks to funding from 3M. Stay tuned for more information. |
Celebrating 20 years!!
Share your amazing action projects with us!! Send us your stories, pictures, and videos and we will post them on the LSF sites!! Please email Randall at
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Learning Goes Oudoors Workshops
Ontario Teacher's Federation (OTF) Summer Program 2011: Going Green
Great three day summer sessions, four of which are being led by LSF Curriculum and Policy Consultant Stan Kozak! (See bolded sessions).
Cost is only $50 and includes program, meals and accommodation. Register online through OTF at: https://event-wizard.com/summerprogram2011/0/register/ by June 6th.
During these workshops teachers will collaborate and explore learning in built, cultural, and natural communities through a professional inquiry approach.
Elementary School Sessions
- July 6-8: London (Thames River)*
- July 12-14: McMaster University (Bruce Trail)
- July 18-20: Mississauga* (with a focus on advanced environmental education practice)
- August 3-5: Niagara-on-the-Lake*
- August 10-12: Kingston (Greenbelt)
- August 15-17: Mississauga* (Meeting Literacy and Numeracy Goals through Outdoor Learning Experiences (Gr. 1-8) in co-operation with COEO) (listed under subject-based)
- August 23-25: Sudbury
Classroom Ready Activities (Gr. K-12) in co-operation with OSEE (listed under subject-based workshops) - August 24-25: Fort Frances (Two Days)
Secondary School Sessions
- July 25-27: Bark Lake
- August 3-5: Niagara-on-the-Lake
- August 24-25: Fort Frances (Two Days)
*For further information about sessions marked in bold contact LSF Curriculum and Policy Consultant Stan Kozak at 519-826-0408 or skozak@sentex.ca
For all sessions contact OTF at otfsummerprogram@otffeo.on.ca
or visit the OTF website https://event-wizard.com/summerprogram2011/0/welcome/
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