Population Education, December 2024
Written by Pamela Wasserman, Senior Vice President for Education | Published: December 9, 2024
2024 PopEd Leadership Institutes
New Volunteer Trainers Attend Events in Charlotte and Detroit
PopEd may be coming to a town near you. That’s in large part due to our wonderful network of volunteer facilitators, who present over half of our teacher workshops throughout the US and Canada. This year, we hosted two Leadership Training Institutes to prepare 51 new trainers to share our interactive lessons with K–12 teachers and student teachers in their local areas.
Our Summer Leadership Institute, held in Charlotte in July, brought together 33 educators from 18 states and provinces, with a third of the participants based in the Carolinas. Our Fall Leadership Institute, held in Detroit in September, focused on cultivating new trainers in that area — over half of the 18 participants were from Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario. Our new trainers bring expertise in all levels of education and a range of disciplines. They are a mix of K–12 teachers, administrators, university education faculty, and nonformal educators who provide environmental education in their regions.
The Leadership Institutes equip new trainers to facilitate PopEd workshops at teacher conferences, for school district programs, and in classes of university students preparing to become new teachers. As of press time, our 2024 Institute alums had already committed to presenting 46 workshops during the 2024–2025 school year.
Learn more about our Population Education program here!
Email Pamela: pwasserman@popconnect.org
