WCS is offering Leadership Institutes to help prepare you for your role as an Adult Advisor.  Effective adult leadership is helpful to the success of the more complex Teens for Planet Earth service-learning projects.

Join us October 16-18, 2008 for our next Teens for Planet Earth Leadership Institute. 

Teachers, educators from living institutions (e.g., zoos, botanical gardens, nature centers, natural history museums, etc.) around the world and leaders from national and community-based organizations will learn how to provide effective Teens for Planet Earth programs for young people in their communities. The training will allow them to provide thousands of teens with the skills and support necessary to execute meaningful conservation-based service-learning projects in their communities.  We will explore the challenges of team dynamics, how to network with experts and legislators, how to motivate teens by using zoos and other living institutions, and much more.