Supporting Innovation: A Workshop on Sustainability Education

This one-day workshop, part of the events organized by the Institute for a Sustainable Future and members of the Campus Sustainability Self-Study Working Group, brings together faculty from Purdue and Indiana University to engage, learn, and think about ways to innovate in their classrooms around the topic of teaching sustainability. The full-day workshop is designed to enable attendees to attend all day or certain components with some being live-streamed and recorded.

Graduate Students welcome!

Morning events are free and open to the public, registration not necessary, but helpful!

Sessions will include:

8:15-8:45 Registration

8:45-10:00 Expanding Sustainability Education Across the Curriculum (Rebecca Watts Hull, Georgia Tech)

Dr. Rebecca Watts Hull, Assistant Director, Faculty Development for Sustainability Education Initiatives, will introduce key pedagogical frameworks related to sustainability education and discuss strategies for incorporating them into a variety of types of classes.

10:00-10:45 Coffee Break/ Instructional Resources Meet and Greet

This time will enable faculty and teaching staff to learn more about opportunities available on campus to develop classes, think about study abroad, campus as a living lab, community-service learning, and more! Organizations represented will include: Purdue Online, Office of Undergraduate Research, Center for Teaching Excellence, Study Abroad, DUIRI, and AO Sustainability team.

10:45-11:45 Panel: Case Studies of Successful Strategies

This panel discussion brings together master teachers who have developed and implemented pedagogical frameworks related to sustainability education into a variety of courses offered at Purdue and IU Bloomington. (EG, problem-based learning, campus as living lab, community based projects, team teaching, etc)

Facilitator: Ximena Bernal (Biological Sciences, Purdue)

Zoe Nyssa (Anthropology, Purdue)

Brian Forist (Health and Wellness Design, IU)

Larry Nies (Civil and Construction Engineering/Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue)

Kristen Bellisario (John Martinson Honors College, Purdue)

Eva Haviarova ( Extension/Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue)

11:45-12:30 Light lunch (registration required)

12:30-1:45 Hybrid Panel: Sustainability Education at R1 institutions: Opportunities and Challenges (Hybrid, simulcast with AASHE)

This panel will bring together educators and/or support teams from several large universities who have developed programs in sustainability education and related support for instructors. After brief presentations, the speakers will engage in discussion on opportunities and challenges as well as key strategies about developing, supporting and sustaining such programs on a large, diversified campus.

Attending this panel virtually? Register for this hybrid panel only here.

Facilitator: Lindsey Payne, Assistant Professor of Practice in Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Discussants:

Beth Mercer-Taylor, Co-Program Director, Sustainability Education, University of Minnesota

Rebecca Watts Hull, Assistant Director, Faculty Development for Sustainability Education Initiatives

Sarah Mincey, co-director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University

Andrea Hicks, Director of Sustainability Education and Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Luis Rodriguez, Associate Director for Education and Outreach, University of Illinois Institute for Sustainability, Energy and the Environment

1:45-2:00 Coffee break

2:00-3:30 Small group breakouts: Workshopping Ideas (2 one hour sessions)

These breakout sessions will be facilitated by staff and faculty and organized by topic. Attendees sign up for one or two particular topics to explore.

Topics include:

Session 1: Working with the Environmental and Sustainbility Studies Certificate (Robert Marzec, English)

Session 2: Planning for Service Learning (Lindsey Payne, Assistant Professor of Practice in Environmental and Ecological Engineering)

Session 3: From Vision to Reality: Faculty Partnership in the Online Environmental Science & Sustainability Master of Science
Leads: Carrie Berger (Purdue Online) and Holly Fiock Brown (Instructional Designer)

Session 4: Developing a Community of Practice for Sustainability Education (Lynne Dahmen, Managing Director, ISF)

Session 5: 5 Easy Ways to Integrate Sustainability Education into Your Classroom Lead: Lisa Bosman (Polytechnic)