Children Are Our Specialty

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Our conference this year features David Stokes!

Keynote: Earthsongs/Singing with the Earth

Sharing short songs and chants that help us gain an appreciation of planet earth and what it provides for us. Using signs, gestures, movement and audience participation we will sing songs about animals, plants, soil, SCAT, earth and sky.

So who is David Stokes?

He is that guy with the gray beard and bald head who happens to be a Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education Teacher of the Year and an “Aldo Leopold” award winner. The Northshore United Educators (WEAC) honored David for educational excellence.

David has received the Master Front-line Interpreter award from the National Association for Interpretation. He sings and engages audiences of all ages in nature study.

Using live creatures and animal artifacts, songs and short stories, David gets down with his audiences, and makes learning fun.

David has a solid educational background in the natural sciences, holding an Masters of Science in Conservation Education from Michigan State University. He has been creating exciting learning situations since 1974.

Prior to 2001 David worked for 18 years at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center (National Audubon Society) in Milwaukee as Education Specialist and Director of Education.

This years workshops:

• Play Based Curriculum
• Wildlife in Your Backyard
• Using Photos in Child Care
• Implementing WMELS
• Credit for Prior Learning
• Adaptations: Fit Where You Live
• Emotion Coaching
• More than Music & Movement
• Processed Art
• Infant/Toddler CPR w/AED (workshop I & II)