OISE TOGETHER

Early years educator Carol Stephenson shares ways to support rich, narrative play that naturally arises as young kids build. In this two-day workshop for teachers, you will discover how to maximize your classroom space, budget and schedule to bring out the best in all your builders! Register now. $25 per workshop.

Join us on Zoom as we remember and celebrate the life of Professor Margrit Eichler - OISE scholar, friend, mentor, activist and adventurer. RSVP here.

Interested in learning more about Environmental & Sustainability Education (ESE)? OISE's Environmental Learning Circle is a student group focused on ESE, that works towards enacting ESE in education. Join in this first meeting to learn more about how ESE is enacted at OISE, and connect with other students interested in ways that education can contribute to a more just, equitable and sustainable world. Register in advance for this meeting via Zoom.

Join OISE's Dr. Jennifer Brant for a session on talking to your children about residential schools in Canada. Parents will learn about the residential school system and gain tools for attending to the idea that truth must come before reconciliation. Register now.

OISE & TDSB EcoSchools online event series returns!

The crises we face in our communities and world are formidable, but the opportunities to collaboratively address our challenges have never been greater. How can teachers best prepare their students to solve local and global problems and engage in real-world learning that ensures they are prepared to contribute to a future where they and all life can thrive? Zoe Weil of the Institute for Humane Education will energize you to bring a Solutionary Framework to your students.

Please register.

New Monthly Webinar Series! Register online.

The Natural Curiosity team at OISE is excited to launch "Recovery, Reflection, and Reciprocity", a 2021-22 webinar series designed to support educators to garner the important lessons we learned about connection, wellbeing, and reciprocal relationships toward a common goal - to make learning on the land an essential part of environmental and all education in post-COVID times. Building on the 20+ inspiring Indigenous and environmental educator voices featured in our 9 webinars in 2020-21, our intention for this series is to highlight more exemplary educator stories to further unpack the principles and practices laid out in Natural Curiosity 2nd Edition: The Importance of Indigenous Perspectives in Children's Environmental Inquiry.
We are honoured to introduce the guest speakers of our kickoff webinar, Amanda Paakkunainen and Lana Desjardins. Amanda and Lana are early years educators from the Superior-Greenstone District School Board and proud winners of our 2021 Natural Curiosity Burtynsky Award! Check out their award-winning story to get a glimpse into our opening webinar.

Welcome to the OISE Mentorship Program! Learn more about the program, our volunteers and your peers at this interactive welcome event taking place on Zoom and Kumospace -- an easy-to-use virtual party platform. Presentations, polls, prizes and a new networking party await.
Participants, you will hear back from us by September 24. Check the email you used to register for details.

As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report emphasizes, "Reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, from an Aboriginal perspective, also requires reconciliation with the natural world. If human beings resolve problems between themselves but continue to destroy the natural world, then reconciliation remains incomplete." This illustrated talk by author Lorraine Johnson explores many of the ways that native plant gardening and related practices help to restore our relationship with nature and encourage kinship with plants and wildlife. Hosted by OISE's Learning Garden & OISE Wellness, this talk is sponsored by TDFEF.
Please register in advance.

This webinar encourages educators to explore the terrain of nature-based learning to empower students to contribute to a greener future. Prof. Lisa Nisbet (Trent University) lays the groundwork by sharing research on nature-relatedness and its connections to sustainability behaviours and happiness. Jacob Rodenburg (Camp Kawartha Outdoor Ed Centre) discusses how to bring this to classrooms by offering up hands-on ideas, activities and resources that inspire students to protect, care for and enhance the natural systems that support and nourish communities. Hosted by OISE's Learning Garden & OISE Wellness, this talk is sponsored by TDFEF.

Loss of biocultural diversity, climate change urgencies, violence and hate crimes, increasing inequality between the rich and the poor, and most recently the outbreak of COVID-19-these are but a few 'gloom and doom' realities that we have to confront daily in our lives and in our work settings in schools, colleges, and universities. Fortunately, there are many children, youth, educators, and communities who have heeded feminist poet Adrienne Rich's invitation to "stand on the first page of the end of despair."
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Join Dr. Dilafruz Williams as she shares stories of schools across the US and Canada where down-to-earth engagement with life's lessons in learning gardens brings regenerative possibilities of hope. Register now!

Join literacy scholars this academic year for a three-part speaker series, TWP Speaks, starting Fall. Hosted by the Toronto Writing Project (TWP) and the Centre for Urban Schooling at OISE, this series will bring educators and renowned literacy scholars together in conversation around a recent practitioner-oriented text the speaker has authored. Save the date.