Summer Institute for Teachers


Teachers listen to a NPS employee in the snow near Mount Rainier.

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.

Teachers in various colored kayaks on Puget Sound.

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

To see agendas from previous years, click below!

2024- Empowering Educators Toward Salmon Recovery

2023- Indigenous Knowledge Connections in the Watershed

2022- Drought and Wildfire

2021- Waters that Connect Us

2020- Actions for Oceans

2019- Climate Change and Endangered Species

2018- Climate Change in the Pacific NW: Urban Environments, Flooding and Sea Level Rise

2017- Climate Change in the Pacific NW: Glaciers, Forests, and Fresh Water

2016- Oceans: Sea Level Rise and Ocean Acidification

2015- Biomimicry and Climate Change

2014- Taking Action and Becoming Ecoliterate

2013- Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest