Thursday, September 14Th, 2017 Black Creek Pioneer Village 8:30Am - 4:00Pm
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Thursday, September 14th, 2017 Black Creek Pioneer Village 8:30am - 4:00pm Table of Contents (Please use links below to navigate document) Overall Schedule Session Descriptions + Timing Session Leader Bio’s Overall Schedule 8:30am – 9:00am Arrival + Registration at Black Creek Pioneer Village – (light refreshments provided) 9:00am – 9:10am Welcome + Overview of the Day 9:10am – 10:30am Keynote Address with Professors Pascal Murphy and Sarah Jean Harrison, Ryerson University and Peace Flag House, Adventures in Building Inclusive Communities 10:30am – 10:40am Break + transit to workshops A 10:45am - 12pm Session A Workshops 12pm - 1:05pm Lunch + Networking (register for provided lunch) 1:15pm - 2:30pm Session B Workshops 2:30pm - 2:45pm Break + transit to workshops C 2:45pm - 4:00pm Session C Workshops 4:00pm Departure 1 Key: OE= Outdoor Educator, HE= Heritage Educator, L/S = Leadership/Strategy, CE= Community Engagement, GI= General Interest, STEP = Sustainable Technology Evaluation Program, PAIE = Professional Access Into Employment Changing How and Embracing Inclusivity in a Spaces: Shared, Green, GREAT! Changing your perspective What we Learn Interactive Edu-tainment Measuring Change Changing World Keynote Address: 9am - 10:30am Session A runs 10:45am-12:00pm A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 Multi-residential Waste Diversion: How Treaties, Environment and Land Environmental Education and Camping 101 Geodemography: How to Stop Worrying and Creating a Space for your can we do better? With Chad Solomon, Author, Little the Ministry of Education With Emily Kinnon, Learn to Camp Learn More About Your Visitors, passion in your profession and With Peter Kalogerakos, Team Lead – Spirit Bear Productions With Catherine Mahler, Coordinator, Parks Canada and With Nader Shureih, Consultant – Public STEM, Waste Planning, Region of Peel- Waste Education Officer, Ministry of Jennifer Miles, Coordinator of Peel Sector & Education, Environics With Joanna Osawe and Management A funny story of sustainability with Education Community Engagement, TRCA Rebecca Black, Co-Founders, ONE bowl, ONE spoon and a The session will be a hands-on opportunity WiRE The Blue Box Program was established over 30 whole lot of POPCORN! Be a part How does Ontario's Ministry of S’mores and so much more! Looking for participants to work with years ago in Ontario. Since then, single family of the story – the audience Education consider to redefine your family camping geodemographic data, and learn about the This will be an indoors lecture- homes have adopted the program become puppeteers in a narrated, environmental education (EE) in experience? Maybe you want to start interrelationship between demography and style presentation with a Q & A wholeheartedly as evidenced by 80%+ simple and comical story. curriculum development? How with basics and get your kids outside geography. This is relevant to the TRCA and afterward. participation rates. In the early 2000s, more and does EE receive support from more? We’ll teach you everything holds potential for TRCA partners, in many more municipalities began to introduce "Green Bin" programs for organic materials. Again, other ministries? How can you need to know – from setting up a ways and will take the form of a lecture and single family homes have embraced this student learning at TRCA sites tent, to building a campfire and even workshop type session. program to help divert material away from expand and support learning and cooking tips. All resources and landfill. At the same time, multi-residential action to support the equipment will be provided. Ideal for properties have historically been provided environment? Let's chat at an introductory campers or those who recycling services and more recently, more and informal discussion. Bring your are experienced adult campers and more municipalities have introduced organics questions about EE in the want to make camping easier and programs. Unfortunately, recycling rates in the curriculum, and other ministry more enjoyable with younger family multi-residential sector have been historically policies. I'll prepare a short members. low and continue to be well below the levels backgrounder on what's been achieved by single family households. This session will provide some insight on why happening since 2007, and let's recycling rates are low and what is being done talk about the future of EE! to increase recycling rates. The discussion will focus on projects and initiatives delivered in the Region of Peel. This will be a lecture style session that will encourage participation and discussion. Note: Please wear closed-toed shoes Session Cap: 20 Session Cap: N/A Session Cap: N/A Session Cap: N/A Session Cap: N/A and dress appropriately for the Suggested for: L/S, CE, PAIE, OE, HE, STEP Suggested for: PAIE, STEP, Suggested for: CE, OE, GI Suggested for: HE, OE, CE, L/S, GI Suggested for: OE, HE, L/S weather conditions Session Cap: N/A Suggested for: OE, CE, GI Lunch 12:00pm-1:05pm 2 B Sessions run 1:15pm-2:30pm B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 Community Development In Diverse & Is Growth Necessary Or An Utilizing Community and School Historic Brewery Tour: 150 Year of Change in the GTA: Developing TRCA’s Indigenous Negotiations: Complex Environments, Impediment To A Good Life?, Gardens with Your Class, Brewing, Beers and Drinking (Beer) in Living City Report Card as a Teaching Finding A Way Forward, With Barry Thomas, Operating Unit With Bob Thomson, Coordinator, With Catherine Hobbis, Canada, Tool, With Andrew McConnell, First Manager – Regent Park, Toronto Convivial Degrowth Canada Community Gardens Coordinator, With Katie Bryski, Historic Interpreter, TRCA With Ryan Ness, Humber Watershed Nation, Métis and Inuit Community Housing Corporation Ecosource Specialist & Corporate Strategy Lead, Education Advisor, YRDSB We've used most of 300 million Enjoy a lively brewery tour led by one of and Colin Love, Supervisor, Education This session will address creative years of photosynthesis in the 200+ This workshop will include a our knowledgeable interpreters. The and Community Engagement -Toronto, In this session, participants will community development strategies years of the industrial revolution. series of hands-on activities for program offers participants both the social TRCA learn about the complex nature employed in the Regent Park We must reduce our consumption elementary and high school history of drinking and the technical details of modern negotiations Redevelopment since 2010! and production or face a climate students that can be used to of the historic brewing process, highlighting Are you looking for program between Indigenous and non- crisis which threatens human life as engage students in gardening, how brewing has changed over the last 150 development experience? Do you love Indigenous communities, we know it on earth. Andean either on school property years. This unique historic tour ends with a collaborating, creating and solving through a game of negotiation. peoples have a hybrid word for this (indoors or in a school garden) or tasting of authentic period ales. problems? Then this session is for you! The game will bring people face crisis - Pachakuti. Pacha for in collaboration with a to face with the many "mother earth" and Kuti for a great neighbouring community garden. With the 2016 release of TRCA’s The viewpoints and pressures that upheaval, but one which could lead Get ready to put your hands in Living City Report Card came an influx exist in Canada as we deal with to either chaos or re-balancing. the dirt! of senior high school teachers in the our colonial present. Convivial degrowth explores the GTA contacting the authors (watershed transition of our industrial and planning division) requesting support in societal metabolism to a level of using the publication in their consumption and production which classroom, with their students, as an is sustainable. authentic teaching tool for their curriculum. These requests have been the impetus for this session! Join Colin, Ryan and the team as we take this resource and create a quality, authentic and experiential program for senior high school students! Note: Please prepare for this session by reviewing the publication at Session Cap: 40 Session Cap: N/A Session Cap: 25 Session Cap: 22 https://reportcard.trca.ca/ and Session Cap: 30 Suggested for: CE, OE, STEP, PAIE, L/S, HE Suggested for: GI, OE Suggested for: OE, CE, L/S Suggested for: HE, GE thinking about meaningful project Suggested for: HE, GE ideas (for senior high school) that connect with the reports 6 sections. Hard copies will be available at this session. Session Cap: N/A Suggested for: OE, CE, HE, anyone looking for program development experience Break + Transit to C Sessions 2:30pm-2:45pm 3 C Sessions run 2:45pm-4:00pm C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 The Nature Of Our Cities: The Role Of Recent and historical changes to Needle in a Haystack: Accessing Connecting to Ourselves, Impact of Ontario EcoSchools: Energy Shifting Expectations: STEM Green Spaces In Supporting Healthy, Toronto's bee communities, Primary Sources from the With Aida Neves, Environmental Educator and Waste, for you and me, Resilient, Equitable Communities, With Charlotte de Keyzer, PhD Archives of Ontario at TRCA and Owner, Director, SunLilYoga With Josh Padolsky, Program Manager With Tasha Richardson, With Tara Zupancic, Director, Habitus Student, York University With Allison Little, Senior and Kelly De Fogain, French-language Teacher, TDSB Research Coordinator, Educational We are social beings that need community Program Manager,