Sustainability as a Context for Literacy Skills and Social Studies Content

Original Date: November 8, 2012

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Presenter: Dave Wilton

Description: Learn how educators are preparing students for the literacy demands of the 21st century and making language learning purposeful while teaching social studies content and language arts skills. We’ll share content-oriented learning and strategies you can use to promote student engagement and academic achievement, while inspiring students to contribute to community sustainability.

Suitability: All formal youth educators, and school administrators

Dave Wilton is the Assistant Outreach Director for Facing the Future, in Seattle, Washington. Dave develops and conducts educator workshops & webinars, oversees the organization’s Peer Educator network, and supports its educator, community, and service-learning outreach programs. He has presented over 100 workshops at conferences, schools, universities, zoos, and community events to students, pre-service and in-service teachers, and non-formal and community educators. Before joining Facing the Future, Dave worked as a classroom teacher, a county land-use planner, and bike mechanic and volunteered as a small claims court mediator.