Professional Development Experience

Our combined, hybrid experience will consist of approximately 100 contact hours of professional learning that will include virtual meetings in May of 2025, the two-week residential program with extensive field trips from June 15-27, 2025 on SSU’s campus as well as through field trips to various locations in northern California, and again virtually in August 2025 on four dates TBD by participants.

Also, per NEH requirements, we will reserve five of our 25 participant stipends for teachers who are in their first five years of teaching.

We anticipate the following time commitments:

May 19th, 2025, with dates and times TBD, we expect to host a 90-minute webinar (which will be recorded if needed).

Two weeks on-site, intensive professional development at Sonoma State University. Full stipends depend upon completing the onsite Institute. See the section on Participant Expectations & Stipends on this page.

Dissemination Plan

To reach a wider audience, we will film parts of the institute to demonstrate the process and tell the story of our forays into telling the Future Earth Story. This innovative approach to disseminating the transformative experiences of NEH K-12 Summer Institutes will be led by award-winning indie documentary film producer John W. Comerford.