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Part of the collaboration between ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Sustainability Office and OISE's Sustainability & Climate Action Network is to contribute to teacher-led research into Environmental & Sustainability Education (ESE) to honour the innovations taking place in ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø schools in this area. Beginning in the winter of 2018, a ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø/OISE Action Research team was formed to support an ongoing Professional Learning Community in ESE. This is the only Action Research team focused on ESE of this size operating in a Canadian school board; it is also one of a very few groups of K-12 teacher-researchers focused on ESE in the world.

Over the last three years, these teachers-researchers have risen to the challenge of becoming leaders in ESE, in addition to their regular classroom duties. They have investigated a range of research topics, from exploring teachers’ pedagogy for water education and waste education, nature-based loose parts play, citizen science, and integrating Indigenous education into ESE. They have shared their research findings through conference presentations, research publications, after-school workshops, and tours of their schools. They are also helping to educate the next generation of EcoSchools teachers by supporting OISE students in practicum placements and mentoring them in action research projects.

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2023/24 Team Members: Hongliang Hu, Elizabeth Pasternak, Gigi Shanks, Bonnie Mullrooney, Alexandra Goumakos, Dan Kunanec, Paul Hackl, Rebeka Ly, Alison Williams, Jessie Sawyer, Amanda Humphreys, Hilary Inwood, and Sarah Urquhart.

Archived Webinars/Presentations:

• - Pam Miller, Jenn Vetter, Chris Metropolis
• - Rebecca Chahine, Nancy Gillis, Bonnie Mullrooney, Patricia Heibein, Adrienne Rigler and Marion (Gigi) Shanks
• - Hongliang Hu and Patricia Heinbein
• - Catherine Kurucz and Linda Ryan
• - Hilary Inwood, Catherine Kurucz, Adrienne Rigler, Linda Ryan, and Hongliang Hu
• - Amanda Humphreys and Jessie Sawyers
• - Adrienne Rigler and Marion (Gigi) Shanks

Publications:

• Hongliang Hu (2024). , Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development.
• Hongliang Hu (2022). . Journal of Outdoor & Environmental Education.
• Hilary Inwood (2021). . Educational Action Research, 2021
• Jesse Sawyers & Amanda Humphreys et al (2021).Beautiful Ecologies: Deepening Connection. Innovations in Early Education: The International Emilio Reggio Exchange, 2021
• Hilary Inwood (2021). . Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 23(1), 2020
• Hilary Inwood (2020). . Education Canada, 60(1), 2020

For more information contact: EcoSchools@tdsb.on.ca

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