IslandWood EEC Class of 2025 Fall Colloquium!

Join us in celebrating IslandWood's Education for Environment and Community's Class of 2025 graduate cohort in completing their first quarter! This is an opportunity to learn about the tremendous work our grads have done in their Fall quarter classes and to highlight their academic achievements thus far in IslandWood's Education for Environment and Community's graduate certificate program, in partnership with the nationally-ranked University of Washington's College of Education's Masters in Education degree program! Come ready to learn, ask questions, and celebrate the growth and learning of our esteemed scholars, educators, and community members!

Fall 2025 academic courses include

• Informal Pedagogies taught by Dr. Priya Pugh
• Social, Political, Cultural Foundations of Education & ArtScience & Relationality both taught by Dr. Déana Scipio
• Natural History & Ecology taught by Lydia Geschiere

Please register to learn from and with the IslandWood EEC 2026 Graduate Class!

Priya Pugh, Ph.D., Senior Faculty for Practicum – IslandWood

To learn more about IslandWood and the critical role our graduate students play in providing exceptional learning experiences and inspiring lifelong environmental and community stewardship, click the video below (Some of you may even recognize a few of the featured educators in practice!)

10:00am-10:20am- Welcome by Dr. Dé

10:20am- 11:30am- Cultural, and Philosophical Foundations of Education : Dr. Déana Scipio

This class builds understandings of the cultural, social, political, and philosophical foundations of educational theory and individual beliefs about the sociocultural, historical, and political foundations of education in order to provide multiple lenses for analysis and reflection on our society’s collective project of schooling. Grads will be sharing posters and visuals to help them discuss their philosophies of education.

11:30am – 12:00pm- Lunch

Purchase a delicious IslandWood lunch or see below for a selection of local lunch spots to check out on your own.

Town & Country full grocery store that has a deli, salad, and hot bar: https://townandcountrymarkets.com

Thuy’s is delicious Vietnamese: https://www.bithuys.com

In Lynwood center (just down the hill from IslandWood)

The Marketplace has lunch options: https://pleasantbeachvillage.com/the-marketplace/

Or you could head to Hammy’s for a burger & shake: I

Then there’s another spot there called Miguelito’s Grill: https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/miguelitos-grill--cant-seattle

12:00pm- 1:00pm- Natural History & Ecology: Lydia Geschiere

Building relationships to lands and waters here at IslandWood; grounding grads in this place and helping them to locate themselves; developing a relational lens to learning with/in ecological systems; deepening ecological systems thinking.

1:00pm-1:15pm- Break & Switch Up

1:15pm-2:00pm- Informal Pedagogies: Dr. Priya Pugh

2:00pm-2:15pm- Bio Break & Cookies

2:15pm-3:30pm- Art/Science & Relationality: Dr. Déana Scipio

Integrating Technology & Arts in Teaching and Learning: Focuses on grads developing strong relationships with lands and waters via ArtScience as interconnected and powerful sensemaking practices. Walking these lands and waters, visiting sit spots, and creating an IslandWood specific field guide.

3:30pm-3:45pm-Outro, Dance Party, Joys & Delights : Dr. Déana Scipio