Professional Development
Earth Ethics Institute offers professional development opportunities in collaboration with the Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning (CIOL). Participants can earn FPD credit towards maintenance of rank and promotion while working towards GSELS certification.
Current Offerings (scroll down for multiple listings)
Visions on Sustainability
A Professional Development Discussion Series Offering 15 Hours of Credit
This five-part workshop series will explore the importance of diversity and equity in building resilient communities, the impacts of the evolving American transportation system, the ties between consumption and the economy, and finally we will envision what a sustainable world would really look like. Participants will read selected essays followed by guided discussions. Additional materials, such as videos and shared reflections, will be included.
Facilitated by:
Yadira Capaz
Earth Ethics Institute Padrón Campus Program Professional
Five Wednesdays: January 29, February 12, February 26, March 5, and March 19
Time: First session noon 1:00 PM, subsequent sessions noon - 1:30 PM EEI1028-9 Location: Padrón Campus Room 612104 (Changemaking conference room) Registration Link:
Menu for the Future
A Professional Development Discussion Series Offering 12 Hours of Credit
Menu for the Future invites participants to learn more about modern food systems and to reflect upon their own role as eaters in a global food marketplace. This four-part discussion series explores our intimate connection to what we eat, and how what we eat may, in many ways, define us and our connection to Earth. The readings consider food from multiple perspectives—cultural, economic, and ecological—each presenting a different, though often complementary, angle on the complex modern food systems upon which most of us depend.
Facilitated by:
Michael Matthews, MS
Earth Ethics Institute Collegewide Director
Four Wednesdays: February 5, February 19, March 5, March 19 Time: first session is noon - 1:00 PM, subsequent sessions noon - 1:30 PM
Location: Wolfson Campus room 1201 (Changemaking office conference room)
Registration link: EEI1033-2
Immersion: Everglades National Park
A Professional Development Field Immersion Offering 8 Hours of Credit
This immersion for MDC faculty/staff offers participants an overview of South Florida ecology and hydrology by providing a direct field experience of the unique Everglades ecosystem. Participants will explore such habitats as the freshwater slough, sawgrass marsh, tropical hardwood hammock, and the globally imperiled pine rockland, along the way learning about local sustainability issues affecting our watershed and fragile natural areas as well as the plants and animals that make their home in the Everglades bioregion.
Co-facilitated by:
Michael Matthews, MS
Earth Ethics Institute Collegewide Director Kiki Mutis, MS Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy (iCED) Wolfson Campus Director
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Registration link: EEI1021-4
Environment, Climate and County Resiliency
A Virtual Professional Development Workshop Offering 7 Hours of Credit
Climate change is influencing Miami-Dade County’s thinking on urban, regional, transportation, and economic planning. Florida has more people living less than four feet above sea level than any U.S. state, except Louisiana. The county has the most exposed assets and the fourth-largest population vulnerable to sea-level rise worldwide. This workshop, offered in partnership with the Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience, examines the county’s efforts to move toward resilience by addressing such areas as sea level rise, transit improvements, and socioeconomic concerns affecting our most vulnerable communities. Co-Facilitated by: Sandra St. Hilaire County Office of Resilience, Resilience CoordinatorMike Matthews
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Earth Literacy Lesson Plans
EEI has collected lesson plans from MDC faculty and staff who have completed EEI/CIOL professional development. Faculty are invited to browse this extensive collection of lesson plans across a wide variety of disciplines for ideas on how to incorporate Earth Literacy and sustainability into their curriculum!
Note: Must be using @mdc.edu email to view.