Webinars

Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy

During this 45-minute web seminar, we will explore the 10 lessons in Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy, learn about its development, and hear how educators have used it to engage their students. Buy, Use, Toss? is an interdisciplinary unit that includes ten fully-planned lessons. This unit is correlated with national science and social studies standards and will lead your students through an exploration of the system of producing and consuming goods that is called the materials economy.

Speaker:

• Dave Wilton, MEd
  Assistant Outreach Director, Facing the Future
  
  

To learn more about our upcoming workshops, webinars, and conferences, please visit our Workshop Calendar. If you are interested in having Facing the Future host a webinar for your next event, please email or call us at 206-264-1503.

In this webinar you will learn more about one of Facing the Future's latest curriculum resources, Making Connections: Engaging Students in Language, Literacy, and Global Issues.  You will also learn how to use this research-based teacher's guide and student textbook to support the development English language skills through highly engaging real-world investigations of current global issues. 

Speakers

• David White-Espin, MEd and MA 
  Teacher, Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center and Pilot Tester, Making Connections
  
  
• Sheeba Jacob, MEd
  Co-author, Making Connections and Assistant Program Director, Facing the Future
  
  
• Dave Wilton, MEd
  Assistant Outreach Director, Facing the Future
  
  

To learn more about our upcoming workshops, webinars, and conferences, please visit our Workshop Calendar. If you are interested in having Facing the Future host a webinar for your next event, please email or call us at 206-264-1503.

Real World Math: Engaging Students in Global Issues

In this webinar you will learn more about how you can use Real World Math to engage your students and increase their understanding of foundational algebraic and geometric concepts. Hear from Facing the Future staff and classroom teachers about ways to use this research-based teacher's guide and student textbook to support the development of math skills through highly engaging real-world investigations of current global issues.

Speaker

• Dave Wilton, MEd
  Assistant Outreach Director, Facing The Future
   

To learn more about our upcoming workshops, webinars, and conferences, please visit our Workshop Calendar. If you are interested in having Facing the Future host a webinar for your next event, please email or call us at 206-264-1503.

Educating Students for Sustainability: Case Studies from Around the Country

What does a student who is educated for sustainability know, do, and value that is different from other students? What skills, knowledge, attitudes and beliefs does a student educated for sustainability have that prepares them for active citizenship, higher education, 21^st century careers, higher education, and life-long learning?

Facing the Future Outreach Director Kim Rakow Bernier introduces this webinar which aired on November 10, 2010.

Four teachers and students from around the U.S. share:

• Their vision of what a student who is educated for sustainability looks like.
• What they are doing that is working in their classrooms to educate for sustainability.
• How their school’s administration and community support this type of work.
• The challenges they have faced and how are they are overcoming them.
• Their favorite resources.

This webinar was hosted by the U.S. Partnership of Education for Sustainable Development and co-sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, American School Counselors Association, Association for Career and Technical Education, National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education, and National Science Teachers Association. The webinar platform was sponsored by The Center for Sustainability at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.

To learn more about our upcoming workshops, webinars, and conferences, please visit our Workshop Calendar. If you are interested in having Facing the Future host a webinar for your next event, please email or call us at 206-264-1503.