UVTPC Fall Conference Workshops

Are you looking for ways to support service learning, student leadership, civic engagement, and outdoor learning that foster climate action? During the morning and afternoon workshops at the November 1st Fall Conference you can choose from the following workshops focused on climate action.

Incorporating Climate Action: The Hows & Whys with Aubrey Nelson, Energy Educator & Action Project Advisor at VT/NH Energy Education Project - This workshop will help us move from environmental education about our planet’s problems into the critical next step of addressing them in positive, locally-relevant, meaningful ways. Discover tools, activities, and resources to help you build student agency and empowerment.

Equitable Climate Action Partnerships (ECAP): Lessons from Upper Valley School Leaders with Aaron Cinquemani, Interim Principal at Woodstock Union High School & Middle School - Explore real world challenges and strategies for integrating equitable climate action into schools, drawing on insights from Upper Valley school leaders. Discover how student-centered approaches, regional collaboration, and community involvement can foster meaningful and inclusive equitable climate action through place-based education.

Growing Young Stewards with Kat Robbins, Place-Based Learning Coordinator

in partnership with Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park - Experience how you can use resources at the National Park and Billings Farm to build actionable skills and an approach to be stewards of the earth in a hopeful way. We will also share how we can support the development of projects on individual school campuses.

How Biological Systems Regulate Climate and Weather, and How We Can Help with Didi Pershouse, Educational Director and Founder, Land and Leadership Initiative - We have far more ability to change the weather than we think we do. Heatwaves, flooding, drought, and wildfires don’t just “happen” to us. We can create cool, safe oases and resilient communities by tending to soil's structural, functional and biological integrity; and creating conditions for natural systems to effectively regulate local and global temperatures, cloud formation, and rainfall.

Climate Workforce Development: Just Transition, Youth, and Localized Food Loops with Cat Buxton, Project Director at Upper Valley Super Compost Project - Regeneration Corps and the Upper Valley Super Compost Project have partnered with White River Natural Resources Conservation District (WRNRCD) to increase opportunities for young people in the Upper Valley community and beyond to participate in shaping a resilient future, creating conditions for thriving biodiverse ecosystems, restoring riparian habitat, closing the loop on local nutrient cycling, and improving community access to food and medicine. 

Planting trees in Place-based Education with Michael Gamache, Mill River Union High School - Invest in and build a green future by planting trees at your school and in your community. Get your hands dirty in this tree planting 101 workshop and leave inspired and comfortable implementing a tree planting project in your own community.

If any of these sound like something you’d like to attend, why wait? Register today at: https://www.uvtpc.com/event-details-registration/uvtpc-fall-conference-2