Events
Outdoor Math to enhance student engagement and improve learning. This is an online event: a webinar presented by Caroline Baillie - Standing People Together - for the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools (ERAFANS). http://erafans.org/event-3342116
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in spring and autumn: May 4th – June 22nd & again on Sept 7th – October 26th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, […]
This 8-week program will be held every Monday from 10AM -1PM beginning May 6, 2019 through June 24th. Intended as a nature immersion program, participants will engage in fun, unstructured and structured activities, while learning science, math, and engineering in the woods! We will address many NY Engage topics within Science, Design, Technology and Math, […]
Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education. Caroline Baillie, Standing People Together, will be presenting a paper on land based pedagogy entitled Decolonizing and Re-inhabiting Engineering Practice.
The Engineering, Social Justice and Peace annual conference on the theme of Removing Borders Among Disciplines will be held at nearby Sky Lake Camp and Retreat Center. Standing People Together is co-hosting this conference with a special Saturday morning session at Cala Munda.
The magnitude of the human-driven degradation of our planet's life support systems can easily leave us at a loss at where to begin – all the more so because efficiency and productivity (those twin poles of an unfettered growth paradigm) are in the DNA of most engineers who have scant practice separating the aims of […]
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM. Based onthe European model of ‘Forest school’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities,learn craft and teamwork skills, create artwork, embark on adventures, developresilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature. Parents andcarers may accompany their children and have fun in nature or […]
Spend time in the forest developing scientific discovery and inquiry skills, learning to design, create and build like engineers, finding out how nature solves its problems!
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in Spring beginning April 18th, 2020 and running through June 6th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature.
Drama in the Woods is an 8-wk out-of-doors after-school program for Grades 1-3 at Sullivan West Elementary School. Participants will improvise stories, make masks, music and sets, and use movement to create and perform an original production inspired by Uno's Garden, Graeme Base's story of a forest rich with phantasmagoric animal and plant life that […]