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September 2009

Our Place in the Watershed: A Day in Steinbeck Country

When: Saturday, September 12 2009 @ 08:30 AM - - 05:00PM
Contact: Judy Dauberman, judy@youthcommunityservice.org, 650.617.8963
Where: National Steinbeck Center
1 Main Street
Salinas, CA
Description:

Join us for a day of professional development in Arts and Service Learning.

Click here for the event flier (pdf)

Click here for the Registration Form (word document). Please download and email the completed form to judy@youthcommunityservice.org, or send to:
Judy Dauberman
3800 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303

Learn how to use the literature of Steinbeck, poetry, the visual and performing arts, and service in the local watershed to meet standards in the classroom while connecting students to an understanding of their place in the watershed.

This day of professional development is for: All teachers from San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties who want to explore the use of service learning in their classrooms Teachers from Salinas who are participating in the Return of the Natives – NOAA - B-WET Flow to the Bay training Teachers, teaching artists and community artists who want to deepen their teaching in the arts – by adding a dimension of service.

Any one curious about the role of the arts and service in education, including those who will support community members, individual students, and classrooms who will be invited to participate in on going photo and printmaking projects which will contribute to the 2010 exhibit at the Steinbeck Center called …

The Creeks of Salinas:The Gablian Watershed Experience