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PYC values Shared Learning as an important aspect of park-wide educator collaboration.
The Park Youth Collaborative (PYC) values Shared Learning as an important aspect of park-wide educator collaboration. By enabling all park educators to access high quality professional development for themselves and their teams, we ensure that all youth can find relevant, quality programming no matter where they are in the park. We encourage Shared Learning among our partners by hosting free professional development resources for all park educators in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, including trainings, networking opportunities, and access to a teacher resource library complete with lesson plans and toolkits.
Park educators can access PYC's full suite of resources on the PYC SharePoint page (log in required).
To access PYC trainings, park educators can register for a free account on the Conservancy Training Portal at training.parksconservancy.org.
Since its inception, professional development has always been an important part of PYC. Creating hands-on, accessible learning opportunities for educators serves two major purposes:
As PYC has evolved over time, our work in Shared Learning has evolved as well. Beginning in 2016, PYC created Train-the-Trainer cohorts, made of educational staff from the National Park Service, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and Presidio Trust. Over several months, each cohort received intensive training from focused on a major topic, so that they could master that topic, return to their respective teams, and train their own team members. The three cohorts were:
While these three cohorts were effective, PYC began growing to involve other partners in the park. With new connections and opportunities for collaboration in mind, a new professional development structure was born: the Professional Development (PD) Leads Team. Made up of highly motivated and experienced staff from different organizations in the park, the PD Leads team works with the PYC PD Program Manager to curate and develop training opportunities for all park staff.
Below is a list of many topics that PYC has addressed in previous trainings, many of which were in collaboration with experienced park staff and thought-leading consultants in those topics:
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