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LEAF Professional Development

LEAF offers a variety of professional development opportunities for educators to expand their forestry expertise. 

Both workshops without credit and courses for university credit are available.  

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 Professional Development Calendar
Date
Location Information
Workshop Information

​June 17 - July 21, 2013

Location: Online
Instructor: Gretchen Marshall
Cost: $424.47


Information & Registration Form

​NRES 744 Enhancing School Forest Education

This online course will help you utilize your school forest as an outdoor classroom. You will become familiar with the forest, look closely at educational resources, and infuse your curriculum with lessons that can be taught at the school forest. The course will focus on the school forest ecosystem, invasive species, exploring how to connect your classroom curriculum to the school forest, environmental education resources and lessons, and community resources available for inclusion at the school forest. The participant will create a school forest field trip for their class as a culminating project.

​June 17 - July 21, 2013

​Locations: Online Research and a Face-to-Face Meeting
Instructor: Gretchen Marshall"
Cost: $424.47

Information & Registration Form

​NRES 742 School Forest Programs and Administration

Educators, learn how to increase your ability to effectively use your school forests for environmental education and sustainable resource management.

This hybrid course provides information, resources, processes, and guidelines to effectively develop school forests. The course is divided into two components. The on-line component provides background information on school forests and guides participants through important considerations for school forest programs. The information collected during the on-line component will be used to develop the school forest education plan during the one day face-to-face meeting in July.

​October 12 & October 13

See information flyer for times

​Location: UWSP Treehaven, Tomahawk, Wisconsin
Instructor: Dr. Roger Jones
Cost: $150 (see information flyer for scholarship, lodging, and meal details)
Program Overview

Information Flyer

Registration Form

​Greening Your Math Program: Mathematics in the Forest

Participants will use geometry to understand the mathematics behind making and using a biltmore stick to measure tree diameter. After exploring the mathematics behind the biltmore stick, they will actually make their own biltmore stick, and use it to collect data in the forest. They will also use simple trig to understand the mathematics of an angle gauge, then make an angle gauge and use it in the forest to estimate basal area per acre. Other topics will include population estimates and land measurement.

​Scheduled By Request

​LEAF School Grounds In-Service | Workshop

Please complete this form to request an in-service or workshop.School Grounds workshop interest.pdfSchool Grounds workshop request

​​LEAF School Grounds In-Service | Workshop

Discover the world of teaching opportunities waiting outside your door! Our 3 hour workshop will introduce you to activities that have been proven to get kids excited and engaged. Measurement, graphing, data collection, habitat, visual perspective, descriptive
writing, social interactions, and biodiversity are just a few of the things you can study in any school ground setting.