Virtual Action MWEE Summit – August 18th, 2020

Event slide deck

Keynote: “Institutionalizing Environmental Justice in the Education System: Centering Black, Indigenous, People of Color in all aspects of education” , Samara Almonte, Thurston Climate Action Team

• Samara’s list of resources

Breakout Action Projects – Presenter/breakout session slides

• 1) Riparian Habitat Restoration
  • Tree Planting Must Go On! Nisqually River Education Project Plantings
  • Invasive Species: Go Get ‘Em!, Grays Harbor Stream Team – Alexa Brown
  • Be a Junior Trail Steward! Capitol Land Trust – Mary Birchem
    • Trail Steward sign up
    • Trail Report page
  • Olympia Parks – Jennifer Gessley
• 2) School and Community Gardens
  • Gardens on School Grounds, Avanti High School – Quasar Surprise
  • Wild Foods and Ethnobotany, GRuB and Salish Middle School – Charlie SittingBull
  • Container Gardens, Thurston Conservation District – Kiana Sinner
    • Community Garden Resources Folder
    • Thurston Conservation District Pallet Garden Tutorial Video
• 3) Trash Pick Up/Audits
  • Trash Bingo & Plastics Reduction, Pacific Shellfish Institute – Aimee Christy
  • Waste audit/food waste audit, Thurston County Solid Waste – Colleen Minion
    • Resources folder
  • Elimination of Single Use Plastics in School Cafeteria, Komachin Middle School – Jakki Smakk
• 4) Stormwater
  • Stormwater Model and Water Cycle, City of Lacey – Mandy Chen
  • Drain Rangers, Pacific Education Institute – Hattie Osbourne
  • Project WET Resources & Water quality testing at home? Wastewater Home Activities, LOTT Clean Water Alliance – Jihan Grettenberger
    • Science activities from the summer
    • List of remote science learning from ECOnet organizations 

Resource Review

1. ‘Grit Is in Our DNA’: Why Teaching Grit Is Inherently Anti-Black Teachers and school leaders need to abandon teaching students to embrace “grit.”
2. Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.
3. How to Build Strong Relationships with Students if You’re Starting the Year Online: Principles and Practices So you’re starting the school year as a distance educator and you have no idea how to build strong relationships with students you’ve never met in person. Before the hyperventilation kicks in, let’s center on a few grounding principles.
4. 7 Guidelines for Setting Up Clear On-line Lessons The way a lesson is laid out online can make all the difference in whether a student can follow along and execute it successfully.