How can we best prepare our students for the important roles they must play in meeting the challenges of today’s world, from global climate change, to uncertain economies, to hunger and poverty, to alarming rates of species extinction, to a looming energy crisis, to human trafficking, to institutionalized animal cruelty, and more?

How can we help youth to become creative and critical thinkers who embody the qualities of wisdom, compassion, and integrity and who focus their great minds and deepest values on solving systemic problems in our increasingly interdependent world?

In this day-long workshop, offered through a collaboration between the Institute for Humane Education and HEART (Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers), educators will have the opportunity to explore the pressing issues of our time and assess the role of schooling to address them. Teachers will learn how to bring global ethical issues into the classroom through innovative activities and approaches that enable their students to become conscientious choicemakers and engaged changemakers for a more humane, peaceable, and healthy world.

Zoe Weil, President & Cofounder of the Institute for Humane Education

For an overview of the vision that informs this workshop, please watch Zoe Weil’s TEDx talk, The World Becomes What you Teach.                     

Instructors: This workshop is co-facilitated by Zoe Weil, President and Cofounder of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE), and Kim Korona, Program Coordinator and Humane Educator with HEART and M.Ed. graduate of IHE.

Kim Korona, Program Coordinator & Humane Educator for HEART  
and M.Ed. graduate of IHE  

Cost: Register by April 18 for $75 ($95 thereafter). Scholarships are available. This day-long workshop includes a copy of Zoe Weil’s book, The Power and Promise of Humane Education. Nightingale-Bamford teachers are invited to attend this workshop free of charge.

Contact: Amy Morley, Director of Operations, Institute for Humane Education, amy@HumaneEducation.org, (207) 667-1025

Cancellation policy: We will refund your registration, minus a $25 administration fee, if you cancel two weeks before the course begins.  We are unable to grant refunds for cancellations after that date, but you may make arrangements for someone else to take the course in your place.