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 shared during professional development experiences include:

• Rock Creek Park Field Experience
  • 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
  • Forthcoming