Professional Learning

Wilderness First Aid

The Outdoor Learning Initiative is working with UNM International Mountain Medicine Center to provide Wilderness First Aid certification courses for educators in outdoor education. This course is the most basic mountain medicine course. In a total of 8 hours online and 8 hours practical field work, the course covers the essentials of life saving techniques to help mitigate medical situations in outdoor learning settings.

Date: Friday, February 28, 2025
Location: Taos Civic Center – Taoseño Room
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Check-in begins at 8:00 AM)
Certification: 2-year Wilderness First Aid certification (Approved by the American Camp Association)

🔹 Who Should Attend? Teachers, grant managers, principals, and outdoor educators

🔹 Limited Space Available 

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Unlock the Power of Outdoor Learning

Join us for a full day of transformative professional learning that empowers educators to create dynamic outdoor learning experiences. Discover topics and strategies such as:

• Benefits of outdoor learning on social-emotional growth
• Universal Design in outdoor learning
• Incorporating academic subjects with the outdoors
• Hands-on activities and collaborative planning
• Enhance lesson plans with outdoor learning
• Elevate your teaching and inspire your students by bringing the classroom into the great outdoors!

Date: March 29, 2025 – 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: ENMU-Roswell 

$300 Stipend for Educators*

Registration closes March 17, 2025

* Limited Space Available

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Integrated Statistics and Quantitative Reasoning (ISQR) for High School Mathematics Early Exploration Project

WestEd seeks public school districts and state and local charters to participate in the Integrated Statistics and Quantitative Reasoning (ISQR) Early Exploration Project. New Mexico is one of five states invited to participate in this national project to expand high school course offerings. In the ISQR Early Exploration Project, WestEd will be partnering with districts to investigate what would be necessary for schools and districts to pilot a new rigorous high school mathematics course designed to integrate quantitative, algebraic, statistical, geometric, and data literacy concepts and strategies to empower students to live skillfully and productively in our data-driven society. Integrating these disciplines gives students a more realistic picture of approaching problems utilizing these concepts and strategies. This approach pulls together all of the available tools and resources to tackle different parts of the task to reach a more comprehensive solution.

Below is a project overview that will give you more information about participating in the project. WestEd is expecting to identify the Early Exploration districts by January/February with activities starting in March. There is also an opportunity to join the project as a pilot site later on.

The Math and Science Bureau is hosting a one-hour webinar at 4:00 p.m. on Tues, Jan 28, 2025, for interested teams to learn more information, discuss the project with the developers, and answer any questions. Please utilize the link below to register for the webinar. For those unable to attend, please register to access the recording.