Praise for Seedlings Summer Workshop
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“I heard about Seedlings from my fellow teachers. Their enthusiasm for the program made attending irresistible. Teaching was a career change for me. This week has viscerally connected me to the positions and passions of my past that have supported me in my role as teacher.”
I think the best part about Seedlings is that you are learning from other teachers, and helping each other to better our abilities.”
“This is my second year at Seedlings, and I am amazed at how much I am still picking up on for my students. I would recommend Seedlings to every teacher, there is always something new to learn.”
“I am a returning participant here, and can honestly say that it gets better and better every year. My favorite element of the workshop is definitely the collaboration with other teachers and professionals. It is a great learning experience every time, I take away something different from the same activities and experiences.”
“As we get ready to integrate the NexGen standards, it’s important for kids to wonder and notice about the world around them, and so I loved seeing the projects that the teachers were doing and the experiences they were having to bring back to the students. I wish more of the teachers in our district could have that because that will really ignite that wondering, questioning, and noticing about the world that we want in science.”
“It’s always important for teachers to think about how best we can provide a cohesive education for students. When you look at the kind of work that the Seedlings Workshop does, you see that it allows teachers to think about how to put the separate units that students have to learn within the curriculum into a more holistic and meaningful way to instigate that knowledge and apply those skills. It encourages collaboration and inquiry in learning. It really helps students to develop every aspect of their lives in ways that are not as artificial and it really, more than anything else, shows that there is a purpose to learning. It provides meaning to learning and that is what allows people to remember and gain experiences that they will use later on and apply as they go through life, whether that is in terms of their work, or in terms of the finding of how to approach individual problems in their own lives.”
“What could be more wonderful than seeing your teachers passionately learning at the same time? Having been in some of the classrooms where some of these Seedlings-inspired lessons were taking place, the level of student engagement is phenomenal and I think that the teachers’ expectation of outcomes is far greater.”
“I am always interested in integrating more nature into the curriculum. I have been in the program for the past two years, and I wanted to make sure that other teachers in the department had the same amazing experience. I am here to support Meghan, and to bring more of a focus on the importance of the environment and the study of science into our classrooms.”
"At Seedlings, I’m the learner and I feel so engaged by the wonderful presenters here. They are showing me how to be teaching by sharing their excitement. I love working collaboratively with the people in my group and even talking with people in other groups because I wanted to know what they’re doing. I think that this can be a model for an entire school—so that the kindergarten knows what the second grade is doing and work together. It makes it seem a little more doable when you do this outside of the school year."
