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Connect through SHEEPSA (Shuswap chapter of the Environmental Education PSA)

Why join SHEEPSA?

#1 - RESOURCES

We are annotating a USEFUL list of resources as we discover and use them ourselves
Become part of a strong network of people in our district who we can ask when we need a good resource about snakes. Or pocket gophers. Or climate change. Or the carbon cycle. Or about atmospheres and greenhouse gasses. Or about colonialism. Or consumerism. You get the idea.
We are working toward a comprehensive K-12 scope and sequence of environmental/climate change Core Concepts that is both cross-curricular and in line with our current curriculum.

#2 – COMMUNITY

We aim to build a strong community who can support one another with our eco-anxiety, grief, hopelessness – all those feelings that we first have to recognize and then remediate. We can build a culture of HOPE and RESILIENCE together!

#3 – IT’S TIME TO ACT

Greta’s most recent speech says it all
The recent report of the IPCC it clear – if we don’t act now to educate and shift mindsets, the prospects for a liveable future for our children and students is grim.
SD83 has now passed Policy 124 Climate Action. The Ministry of Education has also stated that “B.C.’s redesigned curriculum is well positioned to support climate education.”
There is also a motion going forward to the BCTF Executive Committee to create a task force of 12 educators to compile/create a K-12 Climate Education document, and this work has already begun in many places – SD 19 (Revelstoke), Be The Change Earth Alliance and probably more. This is all to say, we are not a “fringe” group anymore – if anything, SD 83 needs to catch up with what other school districts are accomplishing and tackling!

How to join SHEEPSA….

1. If you are a past or present member of the BCTF:

Membership is $30 per year, which can be reimbursed with your Pro-D account. $20 of this goes straight to our SHEEPSA chapter. We can then decide together how to use this money (resource kits for the DESC? Food? Prizes? Guest Speakers?). Go here to join: http://eepsa.org/membership/

2. If you are not a member of the BCTF:

We do not want money to be a barrier; it is more important to have YOU than to have your money. Contact our treasurer, Emily Styles, at estyles@sd83.bc.ca to discuss your membership preference.