Apply by May 15, 2025: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WFIT2025

Discover how woods wash water for millions of New Yorkers at the Watershed Agricultural Council's annual Watershed Forestry Institute for Teachers. Their FREE 2025 institute is for 6th - 12th grade teachers and non-formal educators teaching in NYC and the upstate NYC drinking watersheds.

Come explore the forests, waters, science, engineering, history, and world-famous partnerships of the NYC Watershed. You’ll get informed, inspired and equipped to teach watershed forestry topics to your students.
 
Practice over 25 hands-on lessons about watersheds and forestry 
Go on field trips to experience the NYC water supply system up-close and see how forests and farms protect water quality
Earn ~25 CTLE credits
Get trained in Project Learning Tree and Project WET curricula
Get up to $500 to implement your education plans
 
Program runs Monday July 21 @ 10AM – Friday, July 25 @ 4PM at the Taconic Outdoor Education Center in Cold Spring, NY. Participants stay on site all 5 days. Shuttle service will be provided to/from Cold Spring, NY Metro North Station on the first and last days of the program.

Participants are required to attend a Zoom orientation meeting in late June or mid-July.
 
Visit the WFIT website for program details, sample schedule, and the online application due by Friday, May 16th, 2025 by 5pm.
 
For more info and to check your eligibility contact Tyler Van Fleet, Forestry Program Coordinator, at education@nycwatershed.org.