From the Classroom

The Watershed Classroom Gets Oriented!

The Watershed Classroom Gets Oriented!

The Watershed Classroom is about supporting teachers implementing exceptional Petaluma Watershed curriculum. What this means is we at Friends of the Petaluma River spend a lot of time speaking with teachers, training teachers, coordinating with teachers… Don’t get us wrong, we love teachers! Our guiding principle is that educators are our community's most valuable resource.

Yet we realized that there was one piece missing from our side of the Watershed Classroom experience: STUDENTS! Though we sometimes get to work with students during field trips or at our end of the year Student Showcase, many participants in the Watershed Classroom had not even heard of the program. We decided it was time for a change.

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Year in Review: 2016-2017

Year in Review: 2016-2017

This year we supported 25 educators coordinating on 14 Watershed Classroom projects that spanned 13 schools. This was also the first year the program covered all 12 grade levels. Between these projects, our David Yearsley River Heritage Center field trips, and loans from our materials library, we were able to serve an estimated 1300 local students!

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