Join us for a virtual field trip to meet some exciting birds of prey! The Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) mission is to motivate individuals to care for the natural environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation. They operate New England’s premier avian wildlife rehabilitation clinic at the Nature Center.
Discover how AI can enhance your teaching practice. In this workshop, you’ll explore practical applications of AI tools that can support both classroom instruction and behind-the-scenes tasks like lesson planning. We’ll provide hands-on opportunities to engage with AI and consider how it can be adapted to your specific teaching context.
Understanding math and science enables citizens to make critical, informed decisions that support individual wellbeing and civic participation. We see project-based learning (PBL) as a highly effective way to address these challenges. Come learn with us about some of the basics of PBL, such as entry events, end products, checkpoints, and other core components.
In this workshop, teachers will learn how high cognitive demand tasks increase opportunities for students to access learning. Teachers will explore ways of modifying tasks to increase students’ abilities to engage in sensemaking. This workshop will assist teachers in gaining the knowledge and confidence needed to design and modify tasks for their math classrooms.