Summer Institute for Teachers (SIFT) is an annual, multi-day training for teachers in the NREP’s, South Sound GREEN’s, and the Chehalis Basin Education Consortium’s programming. Teachers hear from local environmental experts, visit local green spaces, and are provided with new and engaging learning resources to take back to their own classrooms.
This hands-on, relevant, and FREE training occurs shortly after the end of the school year. To learn more, contact Davy Clark at davy@nisquallyriver.org or (360) 438-8715 ext 2153
Past Agendas
Check out the agendas and resources from past years below!
2025: Climate Resilience: Ecology & Community in South Puget Sound
2024: Empowering Educators Toward Salmon Recovery
2023: Indigenous Knowledge Connections in the Watersheds
2019: Climate Change and Endangered Species
2018: Urban Environments, Flooding, and Sea Level Rise
2017: Glaciers, Forests and Freshwater
2016: Oceans: Sea Level Rise & Ocean Acidification
2015: Biomimicry and Climate Change
2014: Taking Action & Becoming Ecoliterate
2013: Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
2012: Coming Home: Salmon, Sense of Place, and Time
2011: Ecological Restoration of Schoolyards & Water Quality Monitoring
2010: Coming Full Circle: From Native Plants to Local Food
2008: Forests of Our Watersheds
2006: Restoring the Watershed With Pencil, Backhoe and Large Woody Debris
2005: The Tide Is Out – The Table is Set: The Untold Story of the People of the Water
2004: Restoring Our Native Plant Communities
2003: Watersheds, Shellfish, and the Nearshore Environment
2002: Salmon Friendly Surfaces… And Shellfish, Too
2001: The Shellfish Solution
2000: Helping Heal Salmon Habitat
1999: Students Sustaining Wild Salmon
1998: Salmon Come Home
1997: The Hydrologic Connection