By participating in this learning community, educators should expect to increase their familiarity with Indigenous science concepts and build confidence in bringing Indigenous science into their classrooms. Educators are asked to attend one session in each topic area. A stipend of $50 per professional learning community will be provided to attendees.
Reach out to Seth Thompson at sthompson@freshwater.org with questions.
PLC Themes and Dates
Persons
Kinship spans the cosmos, but it is perhaps most life-changing when experienced directly and personally. What experiences of yours expanded your understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human beings? How can we respectfully engage a world full of human and nonhuman persons?
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Practice
From the perspective of kinship as a recognition of nonhuman personhood, of kincentric ethics, and Kinship revolutionized into kinning, how are we to live? What are the practical, every day, and lifelong ways we become kin?
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Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). The Trust Fund is a permanent fund constitutionally established by the citizens of Minnesota to assist in the protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources.
This work is supported by a University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment Impact Goal grant, 2023-2026, titled “Delivering Culturally Integrated Sustainability Education Through Supported Teacher Professional Development.,” under Grant No. IG 72.