Environmental Literature Institute at Exeter
Keynote Speaker: Scott Russell Sanders, Author of Hunting for Hope and Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, Indiana University
From Sunday, June 26 – Friday, July 1, 2016, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire will host and debut the Exeter Environmental Literature Institute—the first institute of its kind dedicated solely to secondary school environmental humanities teachers. This week-long conference, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), is designed to establish a community of teachers working in the environmental humanities.
The event will provide an extraordinary opportunity to deepen students’ experiences in their courses in ways that will nurture the next generation of environmentally attentive and literate students, and will offer ideas and materials for participants to build and refine their courses and networking tools that will foster this professional development work. This small group setting will provide the time and space needed to create and refine—through conversation, presentations, and experiences—a course and the resources that support it. The institute will provide a place for those seeking the opportunity to build a new course from the ground up, to connect with other teachers of environmental humanities courses, and to refine curriculum for an existing course.
Clare Walker Leslie
In order to optimize contact time with Institute Leaders and to nurture a creative, idea-inspiring climate, the number of participants will be limited to 26. The daily schedule will include morning activities, course collaborations, field trips, evening events, and social gatherings.
Institute Leadership:
John Elder, Author, Middlebury College, Workshop Leader and Teacher Coach
Clare Walker Leslie, Workshop Leader
Jennifer Pharr Davis, Workshop Leader
Mark Long, Keene State College, Institute Co-Leader
Jason BreMiller, Phillips Exeter Academy, Institute Director
