BACK TO SCHOOL—TRAINING TRAINERS:  Texas Parks and 
Wildlife offers professional development for educators [05 
“…the kids.”] … Details on PPT Back to School Week.

This is Passport to Texas Back to School Week

Texas educators can help nurture future land stewards by 
teaching students conservation education curricula in 
partnership with Texas Parks and wildlife. It all starts 
with a workshop.

10—Most of the workshops [involve] actually doing the activities 
themselves, and then discussing them among themselves as 
educators.

Kiki Cory coordinates Project Wild, part of the 
conservation education programming available from 
TPWD. 

10—Project Wild and Aquatic Wild are K-12; they are actually used 
in a lot of college for teacher training. And then Growing up Wild is 
for 3 – 7 year olds.

Although the new school year is here, teachers have not 
missed their chance to receive training.

14— Once school starts, the end of August first of September, we 
have a quiet time so that the teachers can get their feet back on 
the ground and into their classrooms. But, by the end of 
September, we start seeing workshops pop up again, and they 
pretty much go year-round.

The beauty of these conservation education programs, 
like Project Wild, is that the concepts may be woven 
through all educational disciplines—from art to science. 

10—The activities can be games, or they can be art projects, or 
they can be research projects; they’re all interdisciplinary. 
Elementary teachers love that because they can mix them in.

Bring the Texas outdoors to your classroom; learn how 
when you click the Education tab on the TPW website.  

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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