The SEMIS Coalition Blog
The place to connect, learn and share perspectives in place-based learning
Welcome to our SEMIS Coalition blog! A commons-based digital space for shared resources, images, and more. It’s a place for you to ask questions, interact with peers, and keep current with the latest Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition activities.
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June 2020 Learning Series Events
During these two events on June 17 & 24 participants included new and returning member teachers, community partners, district leaders and administrators. At this orientation people were given a sense of our structure and process, what membership entails, and...
e-Community Forum Youth Voice Fishbowl
...the future is nothing but transformation—the transformation of today.SEMIS Director Ethan Lowenstein welcomes particpants to the 2020 Youth Voice Fishbowl.SEMIS Coalition launched on May 18, 2020 a series of dialogues, presentations and workshops to replace 2020...
Place-Based Remote Learning: Energy Activities
Here is a collection of activities for practicing place-based stewardship education from home. These are the beginning in a series of ideas that are developing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic conditions that we now find ourselves in. Many people from the...
Place-Based Remote Learning: Mapping Activities
Here is a collection of activities for practicing place-based stewardship education from home. These are the beginning in a series of ideas that are developing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic conditions that we now find ourselves in. Many people from the...
Community Mapping Curriculum & Resources
With new technology, the possibility of mapping information about communities as a basis for decision making has captured the imagination of policy makers. This Brief is one of two that will explore the concept of community mapping. The first outlines geographic...
SEMIS Member Spring 2020 Town Hall
Town Hall Spring 2020On April 14, over 60 SEMIS Coalition members gathered online for a welcome point of connection after much distance, and a global pandemic changing the fabric of our daily lives as educators...as humans. We talked about how we can care for...
2019 Community Forum Presenter Information
Community Forum Info Meeting (1) with presenter information.
Summer Institute Schedule & Information
Summer Institute Agenda 2018 Part One & Two Some details for Part Two are subject to change. Part One Logistics_SEMIS Summer Institute Hope to see you there!
2018 Community Forum Presenter Information
Information for those planning on presenting at this year's community forum: Schedule April 30, 2018 8:30 a.m. Registration Table opens 9-9:30 a.m. Light Breakfast and refreshments available 9:30-9:45 a.m. Opening remarks 10:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Presentation sessions...
Great Lakes Sciences: Curricular Resources
An Introduction to Michigan Watersheds for Teachers, Students and Residents -- Michigan Sea Grant Beach Mysteries -- Alliance for the Great Lakes Follow The Drop -- Earth Partnership for Schools University of Wisconsin - Madison Arboretum Great Lakes Climate Change...