Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools

August 2025 | Programs, resources & stories for educators

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Climate Creative Program


Explore arts-based processes for teaching about climate change. Open to educators of any discipline. Begins October 9–10, 2025 at Shelburne Farms.

Data art depicting fast fashion statistics

CASE STUDY

Ice Books, Fabric Dyes, and Thrifting as Climate Action


Highlighting the work of three educators and their students from our 2024–25 Climate Resiliency Fellowship.

A colorful summer garden of yellow and purple flowers

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On Supporting Native Pollinators


We can take immediate action in our own backyards and school gardens for pollinators, writes Education for Sustainability Certificate graduate and UVM PhD candidate Leslie Spencer. Read her tips—and join Leslie for an upcoming pollinator program on the farm, listed on our calendar.

Upcoming Programs

Climate Creative, yearlong, begins October 9–10

Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability, yearlong, begins October 15

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What We're Following

Experience a day in the life of Shelburne Farms' market gardeners in photos and videos.

See the latest updates from the Coach Barn rehabilitation project. The building is the home base for the Institute for Sustainable Schools.

We're looking forward to Education for Sustainability pioneer Jaimie Cloud's new book "Response-able: How to Live Well Over Time on Planet Earth," coming this fall.

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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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