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07/31/2026

🗓️Lunch & Learn 🗓️
Mark your calendars for our next Lunch & Learn on August 12 from 11 am - 12 pm. Join Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (GLSI) team members Patty Tolly, Katie See, and Caleb Carlton in the upcoming webinar to learn more about GLSI's model of Place-Based Stewardship Education, available teaching resources, and an interactive exploration to help you get started with connecting people, place, and purpose in your teaching!

Registration is free for members! SIgn up today to get the recording and/or attend the live session: https://secure.waee.org/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F41707

07/18/2026

It's been a tough week across the basin with near-record heat and hazardous air quality. Enjoy a peaceful scene from gentler days at Horseshoe Harbor as fog (not smoke) dances along the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

07/10/2026

The diversity of Great Lakes coastlines never ceases to amaze! Where are we here? Zoom in. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

07/09/2026

More from the Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative summer educator institute! We spent day two exploring community-led conservation and planning student-led stewardship action projects with The Nature Conservancy in Michigan, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Department of Natural Resources, Michigan Technological University Geoheritage faculty, and master LSSI classroom teachers.

Today, we spent the afternoon connecting to, and learning through, the world's largest freshwater ecosystem while schooner sailing with Inland Seas Education Association. Educators and students from throughout the region were able to participate thanks to Michigan Sea Grant, the for Great Lakes Literacy, and the MTU Great Lakes Research Center.

Hats off to the Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative team for creating this incredible program through GLSI's greatest strengths: place-based partnerships, local leadership and collaboration, and sustained communities of support for educators and youth!

These amazing programs were also supported through funding from The Nature Conservancy in Michigan and a grant award from NOAA Great Lakes B-WET.

07/08/2026

This is what makes the GLSI magic. We are on-site in Copper Harbor this week for the Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative summer teacher institute. Participating teachers are exploring the past and future of the Keweenaw Peninsula, deepening their sense of place in this incredible region, and developing strategies to collaboratively shape their communities and steward the local environment with their students and partner organizations.

Day 1 was incredibly powerful, as we learned about the past and future story of the Keweenaw Heartlands endeavor with The Nature Conservancy in Michigan, modeled a multi-stakeholder Stewardship Action Project to replace a crosswalk in a Cedar swamp, explored primary resource use through Keweenaw mining map artifacts with Keweenaw National Historical Park, and planned future uses of remediated mining community school grounds with Michigan Technological University.

As a network, we sustain this work from the heart of Detroit to the very tip of the Keweenaw. Amazing work, Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative leaders and GLSI host institutions, Copper Country Intermediate School District and MTU Great Lakes Research Center!

07/04/2026

Lower Peninsula 🤝 Upper Peninsula

07/01/2026

It is HOT all across the Great Lakes Basin! The perfect time for late-night, nearby nature adventures to explore the summer wonders of insects! Gather ideas to go MOTHING and FIREFLYING this summer and develop insect habitat action projects in your schools and communities! Beat the heat, build your connections to place, and share your discoveries with us!

Read more at GLSI's community platform, The Place Space: https://tinyurl.com/mothsandfireflies

05/29/2026

The 2026-27 Place-Based Educators Fellowship program is now accepting applications!

Last night, we wrapped up year one of this new GLSI program with an incredible first cohort of 15 teachers from throughout Michigan. This program seeks to connect teachers from across the GLSI Network and beyond who have developed into teachers with advanced place-based stewardship education experience in their practice, and who are ready to grow as school and community leaders through their work with students and local stakeholders.

A reflection from one of the teacher fellows at the Fellowship Showcase last night:

"Thank you for creating this space. A lot of the time, we feel like lone wolves trying to do things that people think we are crazy for trying to do because maybe it takes a little bit of extra effort or time. Maybe our classrooms are loud and chaotic looking. [The Fellowship] keeps me going and pushing through those hard times because I know that's what we have to do to trail blaze. And that's what we are doing here."

If you're ready to join a community of passionate, inspired peer educators from throughout Michigan and take the next step as a place-based teacher-leader, we invite you to apply for the 2026-27 Place-Based Educator Fellowship cohort!

Learn more and apply today. Link 👇

05/28/2026

Happening this afternoon! Join us via Zoom at 4:30pm ET for insights and inspiration from the 2025-26 Place-Based Educator Fellowship program! This cohort of incredible educators, each deeply invested in place-based approaches to their teaching, have spent that past year working with one another and GLSI to deepen their practice, develop their leadership, and support one another from across Michigan.

Many of these educators have participated in professional development, student projects, and school-community partnerships with their local GLSI Hub for many years, and took the step this past year to connect with and learn from peers across the state with similar experience.

Can't make it this afternoon? Register anyways and we'll send you the recording!

SEMIS Coalition
Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative
Discovering PLACE
Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative
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