Highly skilled teachers are essential if Arizona is to have high performing schools that produce high achieving students

The Arizona Foundation for Resource Education is a leader in creating highly skilled K-12 educators who positively impact student achievement in Arizona classrooms, schools and districts.

AFRE provides top-quality, intellectually stimulating and enjoyable professional development opportunities including:

• Cutting-edge, best practices workshops
• Classroom-based natural resource workshops
• Natural resource expeditionary learning experiences
• Ongoing, on-site teacher support, training and resources

You won't want to miss AFRE's new workshops!

• 7 FREE, one-day AZventure Workshops and Study Tours that combine natural resource content knowledge and best practices (7.5 professional development hours each). Spring workshops will be announced in October 2008.
• 8 two-day Best Practices Workshops (15 professional development hours each) where you will learn what it takes to create and sustain a higher-performing classroom and campus

Additional opportunities

• Make It Happen! Teams of summer academy participants will compete to receive support totaling as much as $5,000 per team member during the 2008-2009 academic year
• November 8, 2008 AZventure workshop participants can apply for up to $5,000 in Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! environmental service-learning grants