JACKSON, Wyo. — Teton Science Schools (TSS) will host the annual Place-Based Education Symposium in person for the first time since 2019 at the Jackson Campus of the Teton Science Schools on April 21, featuring Lynette Grey Bull as the keynote speaker.
The Symposium will offer in-person and virtual sessions providing place-based educators the opportunity to celebrate and exchange place-based ideas, learnings and aspirations. The Symposium will explore three key themes:
- Teaching the truth when the truth is political.
- The children are the future, but I need help now.
- This land is whose land?
Grey Bull will present her talk “Pursuing Environmental Justice Through The Indigenous Voice.” Grey Bull has been an active advocate for Indian Country for over ten years. She is the founder/director of Not Our Native Daughters, an organization that focuses on the work and education of human trafficking and the missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls. She also serves on Wyoming Governor’s Task Force for Missing, Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) and proposed Gov. Gordon create and implement the Wyoming Human Trafficking Task Force.
“The Symposium is an opportunity for educators to coalesce around place-based education,” said Leslie Cook, head of professional learning at TSS. “The poster presentations and roundtable dialogues are designed to foster collaboration and connection among place-based educators. We ultimately want to encourage attendees to apply what they learn to the context of their communities to increase student engagement, academic outcomes and community impact.”
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