Participants will:

1. Explore the local school district landscape and STEC's in terms of student populations historically underserved by K-12 education. Identify the proportion of students and educators in your region who are emergent multilingual, migrant, or both. (Report Card data/ESE Asset map).
2. Engage in exemplary, hands-on, place-based instructional routines that embody Culturally Responsive Education strategies. Practice applying these resources through designing SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound) goals connected to your programs. 
3. Participate in integrated approaches to environmental and sustainability education that incorporate Social Emotional Learning (SEL), equity, arts and literacy, enhancing holistic student engagement.
4. Receive curriculum resources to support place-based interdisciplinary projects.
5. Gain skills and experience to engage K-12 students in integrated climate change curriculum and civic engagement through community science and action projects.
6. Create community with other formal teachers, environmental and outdoor education professionals.
7. Access the Environmental and Sustainability Education standards and best practices for equitable outdoor education (e.g. Characteristics of a High-Quality Outdoor School.) 
8. Increase their understanding of local natural resource management issues and regional impacts of climate change in local watersheds.
9. Plan for how to translate this learning experience back to their educational context to support the design and delivery of high quality environmental and sustainability education that meets all learner needs.