Emily is an educator, facilitator, mother, partner, and mountain dweller. Her work centers on transforming herself and the systems she is enmeshed within toward justice, joy, and sustainability.
She is currently the managing director at the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education, as well as a professional affiliate with Shelburne Farms. Emily has worked as an educator/learner for over two decades, in roles such as classroom teacher (grades 3-8 & undergraduate), environmental educator, curriculum specialist, and facilitator of professional learning and systems change. Her current interests include unsettling self/systems, critical pedagogies, Education for Sustainability, compassionate systems awareness & social fields, community-engaged learning, place-based learning, youth leadership, climate justice, and middle level education.
Emily co-wrote Shelburne Farms’ Cultivating Joy and Wonder, an early childhood curriculum guide to educating for sustainability. She is a nationally certified facilitator for The Origins Program’s Developmental Designs workshops, and has also served as a Visiting Lecturer in Education Studies at Middlebury College. She is a current doctoral student in the University of Vermont’s Transdisciplinary Leadership, Creativity & Change Ph.D program, and holds a B.Sc in Geography from the University of Victoria, in BC Canada and an M.Ed in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University. She delights in weaving these interests and experiences together in perpetual pursuit of vitality & resilience.
Recent blogposts:
- Centering Relationships & Routines
- Happy new (school) year!
- The successful, sustainable middle school
- From the innovativeEd mailbag: Sustainably Yours
- Personalized learning in the spring garden
- The Power of One Person
- The Return of the Light
- PLPs, Parenting, and a Pandemic
- One teacher, one t-shirt
- Pandemic Teaching: Self-Care Edition
- Project-based learning at home
- Scaffolding students with Padlet and Flipgrid
- How GRCSU is responding to remote learning
- Preparing for remote learning
- 4 things I learned by being a student again
- Confronting climate change in the classroom
- Warm winter greetings, friends
- The Teacher Leaders Hero’s Journey
- Reboot, not resolutions
- What I Learned at the Youth Climate Strike
- Building discussion skills through Socratic Seminar
- Getting started with protocols
- How to make meetings more effective
- Run the world (Teachers) aka #TeacherDirectedPD
- 3 tools for exploring character with middle schoolers
- Why and how to teach education for sustainability
- The Importance of Eating Earnest
- “Who are we as West Rutland?”
- 4 times to connect students with an authentic audience
- What flexible seating looks like in action
- New year? Time for a reset
- How to tell your PBL story
- 4 ways students are tackling the UN’s Global Goals in Vermont
- How to cultivate mindfulness in classrooms
- The #everydaycourage of staying curious in the face of negative feedback
- Curiosity Projects: A stepping-stone to Personalized Learning