[PAEE] Fw: PAEE conference

Tue Mar 10 02:41:00 EDT 2009

Greetings!  Please look over the list of workshops below planned for the PARTNER strand by Rob and George of Shaver's Creek. What a line-up! ! ! Do you really want to miss this conference??? There are 6 more strands just as exciting planned by Heidi, Melissa, and Ruth, not to mention field studies, a Caldecott author with an environmental concern, a world know folksinger, and a keynote who put herself on the line for the environment and went to jail. 

Registration is way too low. I know it is hard economic times, but your presence is needed. So I am looking for a way to make it possible. The biggest part of the advertised conference costs are meals. That is also what makes it necessary for PAEE to charge you a late registration fee. Try this: NO MEALS!
Find the registration form at www.paee.net and put it in the mail today to Beth as directed OR show up at the conference with it. (Hey send me an email that you are coming. It will lift my spirits!) 

Here is what you should put on the registration line for costs:
Full conference - NO MEALS:  Individual $130   Retired $120  Student $100             You can attend everything that is going on ALL DAY and EVENING except;
One day -NO MEALS: (write this in) Individual $85     Retired $75   Student $55        Field Study to Lincoln Caverns $15,  McCutcheon Concert $35
                                                                                                                          Consider adding these to your registration

You don't have to starve!! Rent a Villa - they have a complete kitchen. (Not bath towels, but you can manage that :-) . The rent for $134/ night. There are 2 rooms with queen beds and a pullout couch in the livingroom and a room sharing connector on our website. If you are coming just for a day, you can use my villa #9 for making and eating your lunch. 

Any questions?  rroperti at zoominternet.net    724 843 7046  24/7  

Yoiu are needed!!!!!!!!!! This is a vital time for environmental education. Meet me at Raystown! Ruth

#4
A Multidisciplinary Approach to EE Using Simulations and Public Scholarship. 
Jim Hamilton and George Vahoviak (Friday, 3/20, 3:45-4:45)

Jim Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Science, Technology and Society at Penn State Mont Alto. 

George Vahoviak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management at Penn State University Park and a Program Coordinator at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center.

Public Scholarship is a phrase used to describe such things as service learning and getting students engaged with various out-of-class communities. This session will focus on the integration of non-academic resources to teach environmental topics at various levels from high school through graduate school. In fact, educators at any level can use this approach. Drs. Hamilton and Vahoviak have worked with people from various disciplines and backgrounds—including business directors, food service executives, police officers, maintenance staff, local retirees, local school district members, county planning commissions, and local YMCA employees— who have benefited from the Multidisciplinary Approach.

#1 and 2 

 Working Across Silos: An Experiential Learning Opportunity (2 hours)

Rod Lee & Will Wise (Friday, 3/20, 8:30-10:40 - 2-hour session)

Rod Lee is a Program Director at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center and an Instructor in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State's, University Park Campus. 

Will Wise is a facilitator at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center and a facilitation consultant for The Race Relations Project at Penn State's, University Park Campus.

This experientially based session will focus on exploring the challenges of working across organizational boundaries. Our focus will be on the key success factors in working together as individuals and among groups.

#3

Charcoal Iron Making and Its Effects on the Environment

Paul Fagley (Friday, 3/20, 2:15-3:15)

Historian and Cultural Educator Paul Fagley brings alive the history of the people and places at Greenwood Furnace State Park

Deforestation, erosion, air, water, and soil pollution –environmental issues that are a hot topic today. They are also relevant to the past. Charcoal iron production stripped acres of trees, spewed ash into the air, and generated tons of cinder and slag, which was dumped everywhere. But were these effects on the environment truly bad? Join Greenwood Furnace State Park’s Cultural Educator Paul T. Fagley for a fascinating look into the environmental effects of charcoal iron production, how citizens and government came together to reclaim denuded forest lands, and some of the surprising repercussions lingering today! 

 March 21

#7

 Permaculture, Experiential Learning, and Nonviolent Communication

Bob Flatley and Kelle Kersten (Saturday, 3/21, 2:15-3:15)

Bob Flatley is a long-time SOL member, chair of the local Sierra Club group, and a librarian at Kutztown University.  He is also a founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association (MAREA) and helped organize the first PA Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival.

Ahimsa Village is an evolving permaculture demonstration site and community resource center located near State College, PA.  We strive to create a deeper understanding and concern for the natural world through educational programs that stress enjoyable and active, hands-on learning.  

Kelle Kersten has over 5 years of experience working with troubled kids and teens.  She worked at a “boys camp” in the mountains of western Maryland and worked at a residential facility for troubled pre-adolescent boys near Allentown where she coordinated a garden therapy program with the Rodale Institute.  In addition, Kelle has over 10 years experience as an organic farmer.  She is an organic farm inspector and currently has a small CSA (community supported agriculture) farm.  

#8 

Transforming Asphalt and Turf Dominated Schoolyards: Enhancing Ecoliteracy in Students through Landscape Design Projects and Processes

Julie Hendrickson (Saturday, 3/21, 3:45-4:45)

Julie is trained as a landscape architect and works as an Ecological Designer for Applied Ecological Services in Conshohocken, PA

In recent years, a major movement has swept across the globe aimed at helping to reconnect youth to their outdoor environment. Many landscape architects have been closely involved with this movement. In this session, Julie will discuss the work being done within the field of landscape architecture to transform asphalt and turf dominated schoolyards into greener, more ecologically sound environments for playing, learning, and teaching.  Julie will provide an overview of the principles and practices of designing and restoring school landscapes and how these processes and outdoor spaces can be linked to environmental education curriculums. She will provide practical tips and principles for designing schoolyards that are faced with real life issues, such as limited time, money and long-term maintenance regimes. Julie will provide a list of design principles, helpful tips for engaging students in landscape restoration and design processes, and resources so that these projects can be implemented on schoolyards everywhere - from tiny urban lots to expansive suburban and rural properties.

#5 

Designing Science and Literary Partnerships

Paul Gregory and Kristen Joivell (Saturday, 3/21, 8:30-9:30)

Paul Gregory:  teaching for over 33 years at Juniata Valley Elementary School, Science Club Advisor for 22 years, Summer Enrichment coordinator for 11 years, founding member and teacher at the ATOMS program, winner of a variety of state and national teaching awards, 

Kristin Joivell:   teaching for 10 years at Juniata Valley Elementary School, Science Club Advisor for 6 years, teacher at the ATOMS program and JV Summer Enrichment program.

 #6

Slow Food for your Fast Life

Anne Corr (Saturday, 3/21, 9:40-10:40)

Anne Quinn Corr is an instructor in the department of nutritional  sciences and teaches a senior level course on international foods for  School of Hospitality Management at Penn State.  She has been writing for  the Centre Daily Times since 1985 and is a bi-monthly columnist with State College Magazine. A caterer for 25 years, Corr champions local foods and the people that produce them in her print media and on her Centre Daily Times online blog, Eat Local!  She has been the leader of the local Slow Foods Central PA chapter since she helped to inaugurate it in 2001.

Anne Corr, author of the cookbook Seasons of Central Pennsylvania, will be presenting a history of the Slow Foods movement that started in Italy in 1986. She will discuss why it is important today, in spite of how busy we all are, to maintain the sanctity of the dinner table, filled with local, healthful foods.  She also will do a short cooking demo of a seasonal recipe and serve samples of Tait Farm Raspberry shrub, one of our Slow Food Ark products. 

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