Spring Educator Workshop Registration Open
Join us on April 1st (no joke!) for our annual Spring workshop. You will have the opportunity to showcase what your students have been finding out, share insights, and learn/get a refresher on the spring protocol for the Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming project, with alternative activities for HWA and OCF educators. We will spend time outside and learn more about new experiments happening at the forest.
We will also be celebrating our educators who are reaching milestone anniversaries with us!
Register for the Spring Workshop here
When: Tuesday, April 1st, 2025, 9 am-3 pm
Who: All Schoolyard Ecology Educators and invited guests/future participants
Cost: FREE!
What to bring: Dress for spending time outside, bring a bagged lunch and computer
Snacks/coffee/tea provided
Upcoming zoom meetings
Our monthly zoom meetings have been bringing me so much joy! Come join the fun, and take a little time each month to foster connections with like minded educators and expand your learning about Schoolyard resources.
Register for zoom meetings here
February-No meeting (Massachusetts School Vacation Week)
March 20th, 4 pm: Come learn about a new classroom resource created by Harvard graduate student Yvonne Chang supporting our Tableau visualization of Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming data (create by Ola Jachtorowicz ‘22).
April 17th, 4 pm: Your students are doing amazing work—you should celebrate that and share it with your broader community in your district and town. Harvard Forest Director of Education and Outreach Clarisse Hart will show you how through this workshop on the fundamentals of press releases and communication campaigns.
May 15th, 4 pm: Spring Share-a-thon. When was your schoolyard bud burst this year? What was your schoolyard growing season for 2024? What is the status of HWA on your hemlock trees, and how is your forest plot doing? Come share your 2024-2025 results and get tips and tricks for spring data entry.
Summer Opportunities at Harvard Forest
We are thrilled that we will be hosting TWO educators this summer to embed in one of the research labs here at Harvard Forest to conduct original field work and create an educational resource from their experience. See the announcement below for more details.
Matthes Lab
The Matthes Lab at Harvard Forest is seeking two educators to participate in a NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers program. The two educators will collaborate with members of the lab to support work studying the impacts of methane and carbon dioxide cycling within wetland and upland environments. They will learn all aspects of the data collection and analysis process as well as create a Data Nugget as a classroom tool to teach these concepts to the wider community.
This is a field intensive position and candidates should be prepared to spend whole days outside and be able to carry heavy equipment.
Term appointment: July 7th, 2025-August 8th, 2025 plus time leading a workshop for the Schoolyard Ecology Summer Institute on August 19th, 2025.
Stipend Information: 32 hours a week at $40/hour in person at Harvard Forest for a total of 21 days over 5 weeks with an additional 40 remote hours of curriculum writing and classroom testing in the late summer and early fall of 2025.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to hfapps@fas.harvard.edu, ATTN: Katharine Hinkle, Youth Education Manager, by March 21st, 2025.
Employment Opportunities at Harvard Forest
Please read about other employment opportunities at Harvard Forest here to share in your network (former students?) including temporary field technician positions to help collect data at the mega-plot and an assistant program coordinator/resident advisor for our Summer Research Experience for Undergraduate program.
Other opportunities from our fabulous partner organizations
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Our friends over at HMNH have a fabulous line up of workshops this spring including:
March 14th and 15th-Teacher Professional Development Workshops-Learn to use natural history collections with your students with free workshops and classroom ready lessons.
March 14: Frog Morphology and Natural Selection
March 15: Is it a Snake? Convergent evolution in reptiles and amphibians
We obviously love the woods, but other ecosystems are cool too. Teachers on the Estuary (TOTE) provides field experiences for teachers at sites across the country throughout the summer. A local to New England opportunity includes the Narragansett Bay Research Reserve.
The Wade Institute has a plethora of summer offerings with an emphasis on hand-on minds-on learning.
Waquoit Bay Summer Science School
Waquoit Bay Summer Science School is seeking educators to co-teach weekly estuarine ecology themed sessions, July 7th-August 15th.
Have fun out there!
Katharine
PS-Thanks for reading to the end! We are also thinking about our community summer reading book. Got a suggestion that you think others will enjoy? Zip me an email! So far we’ve read “Diary of a Young Naturalist” and “Road Ecology.”
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