Education for SustainabilityLeaders Seminar

April 6-7, 2017

This two-day seminar developed by the Education for Sustainable Development-Leadership Council (ESD-LC) aims to support and enhance the work of educators in creating a culture of education for sustainability which is integrated into all aspects of the K-12 system. It will assist educators to transform their systems to better meet the needs and aspirations of their students and to create a sustainable society now and for future generations. Participants will work in learning teams to collaboratively develop concrete actions for implementation in their jurisdiction.

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AGENDA

Thursday April 6 ,2017

8:30-9:00amRegistration and Refreshments-Room 200- Faculty of Education

9:00-9:20amWelcome- Minister of Education, Dean of Faculty of Education, U of MOverview of the Seminar ,choosing breakouts and housekeeping- Gary Babiuk

9:20-10:30amPanel Discussion –Facilitator, Paul Cuthbert

Aboriginal Perspectives / Social Justice/ Citizenship / Environment / Well-Being
Janice Zamparutti / Ken Klassen / Curt Belton / Thomas Falkenberg

Janice Zamparutti (Traditional name – Thunderbird Landing Woman) is First Nation, born in the BrokenheadOjibway First Nation in Manitoba. Janice grew up in a traditional environment. She received teachings from Elders, family and community members about Indigenous knowledge, understandings and practices required to live a sustainable way of life. Janice has honored and drawn from those teachings and experiences throughout her personal life and career. She obtained a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education from the University of Manitoba. As a former Director, Janice was responsible for the development and implementation of Sustainable Development in the Winnipeg School Division.

Ken Klassen - is currently the Executive Director of the Manitoba Association of School Superintendents. Ken came to this role from his position as superintendent of the Hanover School Division, where he served as teacher, principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent. As superintendent Ken supported many initiatives to further sustainable education and sustainable living including the design of a middle school to LEED Gold standard. Ken is an advocate for going beyond the concept of sustainability and striving for a regenerative mindset.

Curt Belton- is a sessional instructor in teacher education at the University of Manitoba and Red River College. He is the former Executive Director of the Manitoba Eco-Network, and the former Principal of Rockwood School in the Winnipeg School Division. Curt has worked extensively in the field of ESD and is a member of the steering committee of the Manitoba Education for Sustainable Development Working Group, as well as a member of the steering committee of The Manitoba Education for Sustainable Development Leadership Council.

Thomas Falkenberg- is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. He is the editor or co-editor of seven books, including Sustainable Well-Being: Concepts, Issues, Perspectives, and Educational Practices and Indigenous Perspectives on Education for Well-Being in Canada (to be published this fall). He is also the editor of a special journal issue on Philosophical Perspectives on Education for Well-Being. From 2011-2016 Thomas was the coordinator of the interdisciplinary Education for Sustainable Well-Being Research Group at the University of Manitoba ( More details about his research and academic background can be gleaned from

Questions for panel:

  • What does sustainability mean to you?
  • What is the role of education in creating a sustainable future?
  • What challenges still exist?
  • What still needs to be done?

10:30-10:45Break

10:45-11:30Group Activity-Facilitator Anne MacDiarmid

11:30-noonGallery Walk-Facilitator Anne MacDiarmid

Noon -12:45Lunch

12:45 -1:00pmFollow up to gallery walk questions and introduction of teamsFacilitator Anne MacDiarmidRoom 200

1:00-1:30pmIntroduction of the Sustainability Domains –FacilitatorCarolee BucklerRoom 200

1:30-2:20pmBreakout Session A – Facilitator Carolee Buckler

It is suggested team members split up so that each member could attend one of the breakout sessions offered.

A1 – Room 366
Rosanna Cuthbert
Evergreen SD
Eco Globe Transformation
School / In this session, Rosanna will share the successes and challenges with their school’s journey with inquiry-based learning, the environment as a third teacher, social justice/diversity, and a school wide focus on Education for Sustainability. She will share some of their successful strategies in seamlessly embedding authentic learning opportunities which encompass all sustainability domains and their focus on building capacity, engaging in professional learning, and collaborating with the community.
A2 – Room 326
Rex-Ferguson-Baird
Jane Couch
Kelsey McDonald
St James-Assiniboia SD
The Outdoor School / Our three schools have begun researching forest and nature schools across the globe in order to infuse this into our local practices. We believe that all students can have rich learning experiences outdoors and that the positive impact of these experiences benefit the whole child.
Each of our teams have expressed this Outdoor School idea in different ways but the core beliefs are the same.
Join us as we tour through the benefits of learning outdoors, the mechanics of making it work and the celebration of learning that occurs at our schools each spring.
A3 – Room 360
Anne MacDiarmid ESD Consultant
ESD School Plans,Eco Globe Recognition,Grant Programs. / This session will feature an overview of the ESD website and will include ESD School Plans, Eco Globe Recognition, Grant programs, correlation charts and resources.
A4 – Room 318
Nathalie Bays
Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre
Caring for Our Watersheds / This workshop focuses on the “Caring for our Watersheds” program where grade 7-12 students propose ideas on how they can help their watersheds. From simple sustainable environmental projects in the classroom to community-wide events, dozens of projects have been implemented in the Lake Winnipeg Watershed since the program began. Some examples include the development of a wetland at Gimli High School, tree planting in Virden, initiating a compost program at Miles Macdonell, and a creating school garden at Black River First Nation. The Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre runs the Manitoba contest and provides free workshops to teachers and students as well as support and mentoring throughout the process. There is funding for matching cash prizes for both the students and schools as well as implementation funds. Project implementation is
the priority of this contest and every participating school is given the opportunity to implement a project. The goal is to support and empower students to make positive changes in their school and community, encouraging everyone to live in a more sustainable manner.
A5 – Room 328 (Computer Lab)
Sarah Wallace
Multi Material Stewardship Manitoba / This workshop will explore residential recycling and how you can empower students to become better stewards of the environment. The session will discuss some of the resources, special programs and tours offered by MMSM for teachers and their classrooms. Participants will also be led through a brand new interactive digital platform, that will teach students about what happens to the recyclables in their homes. The content is local with information and images from inside the facilities that process our recycling.

2:20-2:40pmBreak

2:40—3:30pmBreakout Session B

B1 – Room 361
Rex Ferguson-Baird
Megan Krohn
Depave Old Asphalt - Put Up a Garden Plot / Over 100 members of the Brooklands School community joined forces with the Manitoba Eco-Network and Urban Eatin' Landscapes to create a wonderful public garden space at Brooklands School. Physically removing asphalt, constructing raised bed planters, moving soil and planting a garden were all a part of the big day event. Students and parents have planted, tended and harvested from their own gardens this past summer. Join us as we share the journey from conceptualization through to harvesting food. We will share plans, pictures and pots of money (well, some ideas for pots of money you may be able to access)....
B2 – Room 222
Gary Babiuk, Linda Connor,LloydKornelsen, Mary Ellen Campbell, and Kira Coulter
Grade 12 Global Issues: Citizenship and Sustainability – Building Knowledge and Taking Action! / This session will outline the pedagogy and praxis used to design the Grade 12 Global Issues: Citizenship and Sustainability course. As well, participants will be introduced the 10 Areas of Inquiry and how students, using critical as well as systems thinking, explore the intersectionality of environmental, social justice and well-being issues of the world. The presentation will also include how the course inspires students to be active participants through their own inquiry andas they plan and implement their own community-based action-research project.Global Issues: Citizenship and Sustainability is a capstone and culminating course for students to meet Manitoba Education and Training’s priority for ESD. The development of the Global Teachers Inquiry Project (GTIP) will also be outlined. This is an action research group that has facilitated teachers in the research of their own practice and created a PD opportunity for exploring the successes and challenges of teaching this course and helps make the course itself, sustainable.
B3 – Room 327
Thomas Falkenberg
University of Manitoba
Faculty of Education
Envisioning Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools as a Divisional Priority / This session will introduce participants to some background research on human well-being more generally and student well-being in particular. Then participants will have a chance to envision what it could mean to make student well-being and well-becoming and well-being in schools more generally a divisional priority.
B4 – Room 223
Manitoba Council for International Cooperation.
(MCIC)
Education & Action on Sustainability through Fair Trade / "Students and staff members in Manitoba Schools and School Divisions are learning about sustainability and taking action locally and globally through fair trade. Whether it is through curriculum materials and classroom activities, or through school and community purchasing policies and decisions, or through direct connections with producers in the Global South, fair trade has captured the imagination of many educators and learners.
Stonewall Collegiate and Gimli High School have met the Fair Trade Canada requirements to be designated as Fair Trade Schools, while Evergreen School Division has included fair trade purchasing in its Sustainable Procurement Policy. The Manitoba Council for International Cooperation's Fair Trade Manitoba program has been working with many schools around the province on this issue, as well as with towns, workplaces, faith groups and campuses who wish to achieve the designation.
This session will situate fair trade in the context of sustainable development while describing the concrete steps that have been/can be taken by the education sector to use fair trade in its quest to learn and educate, promote and act upon the principals of sustainability."
B5– Room 319
Harry Bell
Louis Riel SD
Youth for Riel Change / Sustainability through active citizenship becomes embedded in the fabric of daily business when an organization officially embraces structures which support the development of the positive attitudes, values and sustainable behaviours of all those involved. The Louis Riel School Division has included “Citizenship” as one of its multi-year Board priorities and highlighted a program of events and opportunities for the 2015-16 school year during a Citizenship Symposium: Youth for RIELChange. Whether developing educational partnerships with organizations like Winnipeg Harvest or Siloam Mission, encouraging active service learning opportunities in the community or establishing a student/parent/teacher council to develop ideas to infuse social justice, environment and economy issues into Kindergarten to grade 12 classrooms, LRSD is a leader in its approach to making sustainable citizenship THE way, EVERY day.

4:00-6:00pmReception–FacilitatorGary Babiuk

Friday April 7 ,2017

8:30-8:45amRefreshments

8:45-9:00amOverview of the Day FacilitatorGary Babiuk

9:00- 9:50 amBreakout Session C

C1 – Room 360
Barrett Miller
Fort Whyte Alive
Outdoor Educator /Naturescape for Educators / Six years ago, FortWhyte Alive committed to providing educators in Manitoba the support and training they needed to get students outside and learning curriculum more often. After an overview of what FortWhyte'sOutdoor Educatorand Naturescape for Educatorsprograms look like,hear solid success stories from across the province! Find out how this unique combination of resources, workshops, and custom programming might help your community meet ESD goals.
C2 – Room 361
Ira Udow
Sessional Instructor U of W
Former principal Wpg SD
Cultural Exchange Program / This workshop will present a description and overview of Winnipeg’s Cultural Diversity Project as an example of good practice that can be readily adapted for use by other educational communities. Now in its 10th year, over 900 grade 5 and 6 students from five UNESCO associated schools, representing different demographic areas of the city, have participated in this extra-curricular program.Each year, students from different backgrounds, cultures and religions participate in activities that encourage them to explore concepts of diversity and inclusion. The project is specifically designed to engage students in critically examining, understanding, respecting and valuing other cultures and religions that make up the diverse Winnipeg community.
C3 – Room 366
Peter Krahn
7 Oaks SD
7 Oaks Sustainable Living Education Initiatives: Seeding Change / The presentation will focus on initiatives that grew out of the SEDA seminar 8 years ago and the 7 Oaks division’s focus on equity, knowledge of Indigenous history and sustainability related teachings, collaboration through yearly divisional sustainable living education conferences and current innovations around urban farming and green space development.
C4 – Room 318
Russ Dirks
Hanover SD
The Power of Getting Started / This session will share the stories of the Landmark Elementary School’s Grow to Give Greenhouse, an off the grid powered growing environment for students and the Hanover School Division 50% Challenge for Waste Reduction. The waste reduction challenge included industrial composting and enhanced recycling. Each initiative began by “just getting started” and grew to be part of the sustainable future in the division. The Manitoba Education and Training ESD publication, “Refuse Refuse” will be referenced as we interact about how to get started.
C5 – Room 319
Jaclyn Diduck, Senior Logistics & Schools Coordinator
CBCRA/Recycle Everywhere
Christa Rust, Program Manager, CBCRA/Recycling Everywhere / CBCRA launched the Recycle Everywhere 101 (RE101) schools program in 2013 to help increase beverage container recycling rates in schools and encourage positive, lifelong recycling habits. This session will highlight the free province-wide schools program and how it continues to engage youth to become recycling stewards in addition to teaching them about sustainability in a fun, tangible, and interactive way. RE101 also provides youth with hands on learning activities and has been shown to impact schools and students beyond the recycling bin. It will also highlight how RE101 fits within the 5 domains of the Guide for Sustainable Development and is a step towards implementing a whole system approach to ESD.
C6 – Room - 327
Justin Quigley
Green Action Centre / This presentation will talk about efforts to get more children active in their community by walking or biking to school every day. Strategies that we will talk about in this presentation:
-the first ever multi-year bike education program in Canada that is a part of school physical education curriculum
-school travel planning in schools across Manitoba that has resulted in investment in active transportation infrastructure
-Advocacy work on the City of Winnipeg Active Transportation Advisory Committee , and the Provincial Stakeholder Advisory Committee on Active Transportation
-a cutting edge app called BikeWalkRoll that allows and encourages schools to share their transportation modes scores with other across the globe. To date, over 350 schools across the world have submitted their school travel data, and compared their active transportation score to other schools across the world.
-numerous school themed events including International Walk to School Month, Clean Air Day, and Bike to School Month
-presentations that allow students to become citizen scientists by measuring the air quality around schools, showing high levels of pm 2.5 in high traffic areas.

10:00-10:30 amDomain Evaluation-How it applies to Schools FacilitatorCurt Belton

10:30-noonTeams develop their plans through the 5 DomainsFacilitatorCurt Belton

Noon-12:45Lunch

12:45-1:30continuation -Teams develop their plans through the 5 Domains FacilitatorCurt Belton

1:30- 3:00pmLarge Group Sharing FacilitatorPaul Cuthbert

3:00Final Remarks, Questionsand Exit Slip FacilitatorPaul Cuthbert

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