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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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Urban Forestry Partnerships in Education
September
18, 2008
1:00-
2:00pm EDT
There are many reasons to partner
urban forestry with traditional education, but probably they
all come back to laying the foundations of future citizens who are
learned, capable, and responsible. Such experiences are valuable to our
students. But there's also something in it for you. Community partners
can benefit from collaborative arrangements with schools by gaining
visibility and recognition for contributions, pre-screening summer
workers, influencing curriculum, and improving the community's quality
of life and economic development in general.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* Planning and commitment.
* Partnerships and funding.
* Curriculum based teaching.
* Educating in schools versus educating in communities.
* Hands-on environmental education as a powerful tool.
* Benefits of environment-based learning applications.
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NURSERY TRAINING- STUDENTS
Nancy
Wolf, Magnolia Tree Earth Center (New York, NY)
Started by the NY State U&CF Council, John Bowne High School in
Flushing, NY operates a Grow Out Nursery based on the National Tree
Trust model. Using Arbor Day seedlings, students care for the trees for
at least three years prior to distributing containerized trees to other
schools in the region as well as New York City. The nursery is tied
into the plant science curriculum, and also developed a manual for how
other schools can start and operate a similar nursery. As an extension
of the program, Bartlett sponsors one student each summer, and trains
him/her in the arboriculture field.
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WORKSHOP TRAINING- TEACHERS
Peggy Davis, Executive Director,
LSU Hilltop Arboretum (Baton Rouge, LA)
While the Education Director at Baton Rouge
Green, the organization ran about 10 in-service Saturday workshops for
classroom teachers each year. Each session was 2-3 hours, and utilized
the Project Learning Tree curriculum. The program was run through the
local school board and also included a tree planting aspect. Now the
Executive Director at Friends of LSU Hilltop Arboretum, Peggy is
developing a similar program using Project Learning Tree and partnering
with the LSU Forestry Department.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!
Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods
Network Exchange and how you can spend a week shadowing another ACT
member.
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