Wild Rose Education is excited to offer seven educator workshops during 2020 in partnership with Western Colorado University, The Wilderness Society, Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, Colorado School of Mines Teacher Enhancement Program, and the Youth Water Leadership Program. Workshops include:

• Public Lands for Secondary Educators: Designations, History, and Today
  • February/March 2020, Carbondale - register
  • June 2020, Gunnison more details and register
  • July 2020, Gunnison (based at group campground) more details and register
• Western Rivers Teacher Workshops
  • Rivers as Text: Ecology, June 2020, Gunnison more details and register
  • Water in the West, June 2020, Gunnison more details and register
• Leave No Trace Trainer Course for Educators
  • August 2020, Marble more details and register
• Youth Community Civic Action Process Educator Workshop
  • August 2020, Carbondale more details and register

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Instructor: Sarah R. Johnson MAEd
$85 early registration, $105 after July 20, 2020
Date: August 3-Tuesday, August 4, 2020 8:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Third Street Center, 520 S. Third Street, Carbondale, Colorado 81623
Register here
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​Come learn from the Youth Water Leadership Program a process for creating student-centered learning opportunities for secondary students. Through interactive activities and discussions we will explore nationally proven tools to help you get started with student lead community action projects. Dive into the process with a real-world issue you are passionate about. Get access to free tools that incorporate youth voice, student-driven inquiry, democratic decision-making, and place-based authentic problem-solving. Prepare students for life-long environmental stewardship, civic engagement, and collaborative action.

Registration opens April 15, 2020; inquire about partial scholarships.
​Optional 1 graduate-level relicensure hour is available from the Colorado School of Mines for $55. 

Instructor: Sarah R. Johnson MAEd
ENVS 510, 2 Credits, $340 + $15 Course Fee
Monday, June 15 - Wednesday, June 17; 8:00am-6:00pm
Audience: 3rd -10th grade Educators
​Register at Western Colorado University
Learn how to utilize rivers and riparian habitat as the context to meet the Colorado 2020 Science standards (NGSS) through observations, explorations, discussions, and journaling to create three-dimensional, phenomenon and problem-driven science learning experiences. During this field-based course, participants will explore the three major components of a river ecosystem: aquatic life, water quality, and riparian habitat as well and the Colorado In-stream flow program. Interdisciplinary field experiences include field trips to local riverside parks, Roaring Judy Fish Hatchery, and Curecanti National Recreation Area. Curriculum resources will be shared from BEETLES, Aquatic WILD, Project WET, and Denver Water’s Water Education Resource Guide. Participants will also create an online Google My Maps river field trip asset map for their school using tools from Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots curriculum.

Instructor: Sarah R. Johnson MAEd
ROE 510, 1 Credit, $170 + $10 Course Fee
Date:  August 6-8, 2020
Location: Chapin Wright Marble Basecamp, Marble, CO
Audience: K-12; Outdoor Educator Leaders
Register at Western Colorado University
This field training at the Chapin Wright Marble Basecamp near Marble, Colorado and is developed by the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, which aims for participants to learn Leave No Trace skills and ethics as well as techniques for effectively sharing these low impact practices with students of all ages. This course is specifically for educators who take youth outdoors for single or multi-day courses.  Research has shown that this course significantly improves participant knowledge and understanding of how Leave No Trace protects the outdoor places we love. Participants will prepare a lesson prior to the training to teach during the course (topics organized by the instructor). Participants will either need to hike along the road approximately 1 mile gaining 800 feet from the parking area to the basecamp, or a high clearance 4-wheel drive vehicle is necessary to access the site. Participants must bring their own food and camping equipment.

Instructor: Sarah R. Johnson MAEd
ENVS 510, 2 Credits, $340 + $15 Course Fee
Thursday, June 11-Saturday, June 13, 2020. 8:00am-6:00pm
Audience: Secondary
Register at Western Colorado University beginning February 3

Expand your knowledge of public lands in America. Through interactive discussion-based learning gain a stronger understanding of federal land designations, history of these lands, and the context in which these places were protected. Educators will get free access to a brand-new public land high school curriculum. The course aims to build connections between people and America’s public lands as well as awareness that the lands and waters we love today were once and still are Indigenous lands. Each day field trips to local BLM, US Forest Service, National Park, and Colorado state lands will expose participants to the agencies and the professionals who manage them. We will explore the many uses and benefits of public lands, as well as the threats they face locally and nationally. Students will also collect citizen science land cover and tree data for NASA’s Globe Observer. Activities from other nationally proven curriculum will also be interwoven throughout the course. 

Instructor: Sarah R. Johnson MAEd
ENVS 510, 2 Credits, $340 + $15 Course Fee
Date: July 28-30, 2020
Location: Gunnison National Forest; Curecanti National Recreation Area, camping at East Elk Creek Group Campground
Audience: Secondary; Community learners; Higher Education
Register at Western Colorado University
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Expand your knowledge of public lands in America. Community members and educators are invited to participate in this interactive discussion-based learning opportunity to gain a stronger understanding of federal land designations, history of these lands, and the context in which these places were protected. The course aims to build connections between people and America’s public lands as well as awareness that the lands and waters we love today were once and still are Indigenous lands. Each day field trips to local BLM, US Forest Service, National Park, and Colorado state lands will expose students to the agencies and the professionals who manage them. Students will explore the many uses and benefits of public lands, as well as the threats they face locally and nationally. Students will also collect citizen science land cover and tree data for NASA’s Globe Observer.

Sarah Johnson of Wild Rose Education has been selected to participate in a 2020 PolarTREC expedition in April to Utqiagvik, Alaska and again during the summer months. She was selected from over 200 applicants through a rigorous application and interview process to join Arctic researchers from the U.S. Navy and University of Washington who work on the International Arctic Buoy Programme. An opportunity of a lifetime, to go to the Arctic with a science research team. There is even the possibility of going to the North Pole in the summer. 

Read the most current updates on the blog, Arctic Ruminations. 

Wild Rose Education is thrilled to announce a partnership with The Wilderness Society to pilot and evaluate the effectiveness of the brand new Public Lands in the United States curriculum for learners 16 years and older. The interactive discussion based learning experiences builds stronger understanding of federal land designations, history of these lands, and the context in which these places were protected for participants. The curriculum aims to build connections between people and America’s public lands as well as awareness that the lands and waters we love today were once and still are Indigenous lands. The course also explores the many uses and benefits of public lands, as well as the threats they face locally and nationally. Read more from TWS.

We will be creating evaluation tools, aligning the curriculum to national and Colorado social studies and literacy standards, and also the Guidelines for Excellence in Environmental Education. 

Contact us if you would like to schedule the curriculum with your community or student group. 

Our Public Lands: Designations, History, and Today 
Aspen Mountain Guide School (11th & 12th grade students)
December, 2019
Aspen High School, Aspen, CO

Our Public Lands: Designations, History, and Today 
Tuesdays, 6:00pm-8:30pm, February 4, 11, and 18, 2020
Colorado Mountain College, Carbondale, CO
$55 non-credit course, Register here

Public Lands for Secondary Educators: Designations, History, and Today
Tuesdays, 5:00pm-7:30pm, February 25, March 3, 10, 2020
Third Street Center, Carbondale, CO 
$40 early registration fee, $50 after Feb. 10th Register here.
Optional 1 graduate-level relicensure credit available for $50 from Colorado School of Mines

Public Lands for Secondary Educators: Designations, History, and Today
8:00am-6:00pm June 11, 12, 13, 2020
Western Colorado University, Gunnison CO
Registration opens in early February 2020
2 graduate credits course description
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Public Lands Exploration in the Gunnison Valley: Designations, History, and Today
8:00am-6:00pm July 28, 29, 30, 2020
camping at East Elk Creek group site, Curecanti National Recreation Area
Western Colorado University, Gunnison CO
Registration opens in early February 2020
2 graduate credits course description

Email us to be notified when course registrations open. 
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A great group of formal and non-formal educators participated in the award winning Project Learning Tree curriculum workshop taught by Colorado Forest Service Danielle Ardrey and recently retired Shawna Crocker. The workshop was sponsored by the Northwest Regional Council of the Colorado Environmental Education Plan. 

Wild Rose Education piloted an innovative approach to provide a Leave No Trace Trainer Course for the new Aspen Mountain Guide School students this fall. The 11th and 12th grade students spent the entire month of September during their regular class time learning and practicing the 7 Principles of LNT and the ethics of minimal impact use of public lands. They then worked in small groups to research and then teach mini-lessons on special uses such as mountain biking, camping bear country, hammock camping, winter travel, hunting, fishing, and rock climbing. All the participants are now trained by LNT and have the skills and knowledge to teach LNT Awareness Workshops. 
Aspen Public Radio covered the workshop with this recent news story.
Special thanks to Tim Borden, LNT Master Educator for co-instructing the course and to Aspen Valley Land Trust for the use of the Chapin Wright Marble Basecamp.

Thursday, October 24, 8:00am-4:30pm
Third Street Center, 520 S. Third Street, Carbondale, CO 81623
now $55 (only had 16 $20 registrations available)
registration includes curriculum guide book, lunch, and light snacks
Register here
Instructors: Shawna Crocker and Danielle Ardrey

All K-8th grade educators are invited to participate in this highly active, hands-on session to experience and model several PLT activities in Carbondale, Colorado. Enhance your teaching skills and become comfortable teaching outdoors – in urban, suburban, or rural environments. Receive multi-disciplinary, hands-on lessons aligned with state and national academic standards. Put the materials to use right away in your own classroom, playground, or nature center. The workshop will include planning time to integrate PLT into your curriculum or program. All PLT activities are created with the NGSS lens and include robust content, relevant cross cutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. 

Participants will receive a PLT K-8 curriculum guide. Door prizes will include a grade band appropriate NGSS correlated online e-unit and access to PLT Green Schools online training. All participants will receive a certificate of continuing ed hours. Optional 0.5 graduate-level relicensure credit available for $40 from Colorado School of Mines (to be confirmed).

The PLT workshop is co-sponsored by the Northwest Regional Council of the Colorado EE Plan and Wild Rose Education. The cost is subsidized by a grant from the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education (CAEE). ​