CEEF Institute
Best Practices in Environmental Education
Location: Taylorsville, CA
Sponsored By: California Environmental Education Foundation; California Department of Water Resources; Plumas County Office of Education and CSU Chico
Special Note: Food and Lodging: for those of you traveling from out of the area, you can stay overnight in the bunkrooms adjacent to the Taylorsville School House. There is also a large grassy area if you’d like to bring a tent and camp outside. Bring a sleeping bag and pillow. No charge for lodging.
Register: Please contact Anne Stephens for additional
questions or
send in an
application by June 8, 2018.
Description: K-12 Teachers! Join us for two days in the historic mountain town of Taylorsville (Plumas County) to learn how to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) through high quality environmental education strategies and place-based learning. Receive a copy of the new Project WET 2.0 curriculum and other resources for your classroom!
- Day 1: Project WET and an introduction to the Feather River’s role in the State Water Project
- Day 2: 3 dimensional learning: An overview of the NGSS and the State Environmental Principles and Concepts. Guidance for planning and carrying out a class stewardship program
- Fall Follow-up Day (December): present your stewardship project to the group
- Teacher Stipend $100 for each institute day + $200 for
completion and presentation of stewardship project at Fall
follow-up. - 1 unit of continuing education credit available for purchase ($60/ea).
Taylorsville is located about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento and twenty-two miles north of Quincy near Lake Almanor. It sits at the edge of Indian Valley, the ancestral home of the Mountain Maidu. Since 1863 Taylorsville has had a school to support the mining and ranching families of Indian and Genesse Valleys. The last Taylorsville School was built in 1980 serving elementary grades before finally closed in 2012.
In 2017 the site was repurposed as a residential outdoor education site, supporting 7-12 grade programming around the themes of Sierra Nevada stewardship and sustainability. The site also supports teacher professional learning and the summer P-Crew (Plumas) providing rural and urban youth with employment experiences related to natural resources. In addition to the classroom, there is a men’s and women’s bunkhouse, restrooms and a shower trailer. There is also a large outdoor lawn area for camping.