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The Cloud Institute's Advanced Summer Institute - Education for Sustainability Curriculum Design St
The Advanced Summer Institute is designed for faculty teams, curriculum supervisors and their teams and individuals who are interested in designing sustainability-focused curricula.

Date: Monday, July 26th, 2010
Ends: Friday, July 30th, 2010
Location: New York, New York
Cost: $650 Early Bird (Until April 1 2010)

Details: 
• What does it take to design curricula that educates for a sustainable future for Pre-K-12?

• How can we design elegant units of study that educate for sustainability?

• What tools are available to us to do so?

• What are the core EfS content and performance standards/outcomes and indicators we can use to design learning opportunities and assess student learning?

• How can we align EfS Core Standards/Outcomes with the ones our school/our State require?

• Can we integrate EfS units into our curriculum mapping software?

• How can Understanding by Design or a "backwards design" approach contribute to the design of EfS curricula?

• What explicit criteria can we use to assess student work for evidence of EfS?

• How do we plan for vertical and horizontal integration of the EfS Standards/Outcomes and Indicators?

• Can we see some exemplars of EfS units that other teachers and schools have developed?

The Advanced Summer Institute is designed to address these, among other questions. For those schools that are ready for vertical and lateral curriculum mapping and integration of EfS across the curriculum, time will be set aside for "big picture planning" as well.

Please note that the 1-day, $100 Introduction to Sustainability Workshop is a prerequisite for this course.

Contact: 
www.cloudinstitute.org