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May 2018
Reflecting on Practice Coaching Workshop: Building an Organizational Culture
We are pleased to offer a Reflecting on Practice Coaching Workshop, designed by educational researchers from Lawrence Hall of Science and led in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences. The workshop familiarizes leaders with a nationally field-tested curriculum for advancing informal education, and building an organizational culture of reflective practice and incorporating research on learning into everyday work experiences. During this workshop, you will (a) experience portions of the modular curriculum as a learner, (b) reflect on and problem…
August 2018
Building Capacity For Effective Collaboration With Schools & Communities
Effective collaboration is essential to our ability to reach all K-12 students in our region with meaningful environmental learning opportunities. Three years ago, ChangeScale members launched our School Partnership Initiative for Environmental Literacy with the goal to equitably expand access to students in school communities throughout the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Area. Join us for our August 29 convening to explore emerging strategies and tools from ChangeScale’s School Partnership Initiative. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on and…
March 2019
ChangeScale North Bay Listening Session
March 6, 2019, 4pm – 6pm, YMCA Point Bonita (North Bay)
ChangeScale East Bay Listening Session
March 13, 2019, 4pm – 6pm, Shoreline Center, MLK Shoreline, EBRPD (East Bay)
ChangeScale South Bay Listening Session
March 20, 2019, 4pm – 6pm, Children’s Discovery Museum (South Bay)
ChangeScale San Francisco Listening Session
March 28, 2019, 4:30pm – 6:30pm, Crissy Field Center (San Francisco)
April 2019
ChangeScale Santa Cruz Listening Session
April 3, 2019, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Ecology Action (Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay)
June 2019
ChangeScale Summer Convening
Join us to keep the momentum going with all your ChangeScale partners and friends! We will be carving out time to re-center and re-invigorate each other as we work for the sake of honoring our natural heritage and environmental education. If you’ve joined us in our Listening Session efforts throughout the month of March we will also be sharing findings and trends that have surfaced from that endeavor. Participants will also have complimentary access to the galleries at the Tech…
April 2020
Lunchtime Conversation: COVID-19 and Environmental Literacy in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area
Please join ChangeScale and the Environmental Education Funders Collaborative (EEFC) for a lunchtime conversation about the impact of COVID-19 on environmental learning organizations in our region. We’ll use the time to connect, share resources, and discuss potential ways to support one another. If you are interested in connecting with researchers, funders, and environmental learning practitioners in our region register here. Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link.
May 2020
Designing for Change: Connecting EE Practice and Research
Have you ever wondered why some aspect of your program seems to work particularly well? Or how you might refine your program’s approach to learning using research-supported ideas? Join Stanford University to explore approaches for effectively integrating research findings into your programming, grant-making, or overall conservation practices. Using a fast-paced experiential design-thinking framework, we will explore how to incorporate research into daily practice, brainstorm opportunities for change, and prototype ideas. You will finish the course with clear strategies and tools…