Date: March 6- March 7, 2026 (overnight workshop)
Time: March 6: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., March 7 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (noon) P.T.
Format: In person, consecutive days, overnight
Location: Selma OR
Audience: K-12th grade educators, formal and nonformal. Especially educators working with 5th and/or 6th graders in outdoor school settings.
Materials provided: Project WET, Foundations of Water Education

Description: Join us for an overnight, immersive workshop at the Siskiyou Field Institute designed for outdoor school instructors, coordinators, and K–12 educators. This hands-on experience will strengthen your instructional practice in social-emotional learning (SEL), standards-aligned curriculum design, and strategies for creating meaningful connections between outdoor learning and classroom instruction.
What you’ll gain:

• SEL Integration: Learn student-centered approaches that foster belonging, curiosity, and developmentally appropriate engagement for all learners during field instruction.
• Standards-Aligned Curriculum: Explore Project WET (curriculum provided at no cost to attendees) to design NGSS-aligned lessons that connect outdoor experiences with classroom learning. Engage in activities focused on watersheds, water systems, and water quality.
• Classroom Connections: Discover strategies to prepare students for fieldwork, strengthen links between outdoor school lessons and academic standards, and extend learning after the outdoor school experience.  

Immerse yourself in an engaging, collaborative experience in a beautiful outdoor setting that will inspire your teaching practice! Yurt camping and some meals provided. 

After initial registration and closer to the workshop, participants will receive comprehensive emails that will include information about the site, lodging, meals, suggested packing list, and other details. 

Considerations: The entire workshop will take place at the Siskiyou Field Institute; two days, overnight, with onsite lodging provided in yurts.  
A good share of time and activities will be outdoors, in varying weather conditions. 
Site conditions include uneven terrain, stairs, and varying lighting conditions. There is no cell phone service. The  yurts are a shared space with bunk beds, and no indoor plumbing,  power, or heat. 
Site includes indoor covered spaces, solar lighting along some paths, a shower house, and ADA accessible restrooms.  An ADA accessible yurt and one yurt with power are available. Wi-fi is available.

Stipend: A $160 stipend is available from OSU Extension Service Outdoor School to support the attendance of eligible outdoor school educators who are not being compensated by their employer for the time they attend the workshop. Please contact lauren.rodgers@oregonstate.edu with questions about stipend eligibility.

Brought to you by: Oregon State University Extension Service - Outdoor School, Siskiyou Field Institute , and Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP).

Registration required and will close approximately 2 weeks prior to the workshop or when full.  Offered at no cost to Oregon Educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays.