Community Collaboration and Education
Our programming includes a variety of community educators – people who join in the field or classroom, to share their direct experience on some of the complex issues examined in class. In this way we are able to engage with a diversity of perspectives, in an effort to represent a cross-section of our community and to help ground things in local contexts and case studies.
Community educators hugely enrich the learning experience and it’s an aspect of programming that students really treasure. We are so grateful to the people who join our programs year after year, to generously share their knowledge and support our shared vision for education inspired by Haida Gwaii. Some of our community educators have become curriculum developers, course instructors, and other types of partners.
“I think the experience in itself is worth more than anything. Being a part of the Natural Resource Science semester is such a unique field school opportunity and the connections you make are invaluable. I think anyone would be better off having come here.”
“Speakers and the variety of individuals who come in and share with us are really gardeners in disguise. I make this claim because those who come in plant seeds of change within us. They nurture our minds with messages and thoughts that allow us to grow, forming roots in this community, and blooming fruits that we will take home with us to share with those who are tempted to take a bite, into the retelling and sharing of these stories.”
