This spring, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) and partners Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Conservation Nation, and Urban Adventure Squad is working with a cohort of teachers from nine schools to provide an immersive professional development experience . Participants will receive training in cross-curricular outdoor learning and take steps to make their school a certified Capital LEAF School.

Activities and information shared during professional development experiences include:

• Rock Creek Park Field Experience
  • Rock Creek Park
  • Mindfulness Outdoors
  • Six of One, Half Dozen of Another
  • If I Were a Tree Teacher’s Guide
  • Leaf and Seed Study
  • Parts of a Tree and Estimating Tree Age
  • Movement of Water
  • Peirce Mill
• Anacostia River Field Experience
  • Trash Timeline
  • Sum of the Parts
    • Tutorial
    • Student-facing instructions with tie-in to Flint, MI water crisis
    • Answer key
  • Where Does Our Garbage Go? In this livestream recording, educators from Nature Forward (formerly Audubon Naturalist Society) visit a waste management facility and investigate what happens to the garbage we leave behind.
  • Anacostia River Field Guide
  • River of Resilience: A story map of the Anacostia River
  • Trash Free DC
  • Councilmembers announce DC’s Bottle Bill