Peggy Cunningham, who teaches second-grade at Hall-Woodward Elementary School, is heading to Ecuador.
Cunningham is one of 46 North Carolina educators participating in one of the N. C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ Educators of Excellence Institutes this summer. Cunningham’s group will travel to Ecuador from June 18 to 26, during the seventh year of a special collaboration between the Museum and Heifer International.
Museum staff and Ecuadorian educators will help the teachers explore connections between environmental sustainability and poverty, experience and learn about Ecuadorian ecosystems and the people who live and work in them, see successes that have helped families move from poverty toward self-reliance, and learn how to share this experience with their own students and with other schools.
The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ Educators of Excellence Institutes are designed to help educators to teach students about North Carolina’s ecological connections to the rest of the world. All Institutes have an online component at www.naturalsciences.org that allows colleagues and students to follow along on the trip through pictures, journal entries and email questions and answers.
Institute alumni become part of the Educators of Excellence Network, which helps teachers exchange innovative ideas for teaching science and promoting conservation awareness. More than 400 outstanding North Carolina science educators have participated in Educators of Excellence programs since 1987.
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