Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools

Connect with your "why" in 2025

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Find community, reinvigorate your teaching practice, and tap into the power of Education for Sustainability with retreats, workshops, and courses.


Registration is now open for many upcoming programs!

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Focus on Education for Sustainability


Pursue an Education for Sustainability (EFS) Graduate Certificate, offered with the University of Vermont. Choose from a 9-credit or 18-credit multi-year pathway. Apply by early spring for a summer start.

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Or, take just one of these EFS Certificate courses:

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For Early Childhood Educators


Project Seasons for Young Learners: Cultivating Joy & Wonder, July 14–18. An immersive, energizing week on the farm to inspire your curriculum with fresh ideas.

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Focus on Farm to School


Build a team and apply for the Northeast Farm to School Institute. Join us to cultivate vibrant communities, just food systems, and healthy kids. This year-long program begins June 24–26 and is offered in partnership with NOFA-VT.

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Save the date! Applications open soon for A Forest for Every Classroom, a year-long program beginning August 5–7.

What We're Following

An article by Dov Stucker about Burlington City & Lake, our partnership project with Burlington School District, was recently featured on Next Generation Learning. Read about how these students "solve real challenges for their city, empowered as citizens and community members, with a true voice to contribute."

Missing the farm? Enjoy these images of Shelburne Farms (and set one as your desktop or phone background!).

For K–12 educators in the Lake Champlain Basin: The Champlain Basin Education Initiative is hosting a World Water Day celebration and student artwork contest! Students can submit art, photography, writing, or videos. Enter by March 12. See details.

Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future.


The Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools offers professional learning programs and resources for PreK-12 educators. All of our offerings prepare educators to facilitate learning experiences for students using a lens of sustainability. We believe in the power and potential of students to address the world's most pressing issues. We see schooling as a pathway to create healthy and just communities, successful lives, and a more livable world for all. In partnership with students and communities, educators are changemakers.

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