Professional Development

Teachers learn from participating in their classrooms' field trips to Boxerwood and off-site rivers and streams. 

PROJECT NEST: Elementary teachers have participated in Project NEST (Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Together).  This program was funded by the US EPA and NOAA/B-WET.  Teachers developed strategies for successfully using inquiry-based learning in their own schoolyards, developed student service-learning projects to enhance their schoolyards, and better incorporated river-related investigations back into the classroom. Training began in fall, 2008; the last workshop was in March of 2010.

WATERSHED INVESTIGATORS: Ending this fall, Boxerwood had a three-year professional development initiative for middle school science teachers engaged in the Watershed Investigators program, funded by a grant held by Rockbridge County School from the Learn and Serve Foundation.  Opportunities for teachers included workshops, classroom support, field studies, and one-on-one collaboration with Boxerwood staff.