Our Services

The Cloud Institute offers a variety of products and services to help public and independent schools, school systems, and their communities teach and learn for a sustainable future. These products and services evolve with the ever changing flow of innovative thinking and content that characterizes teaching, learning, and sustainable practices across the disciplines and professional sectors.

Our materials are being used nationally and internationally in a variety of settings - from New York City to Brazil. All of our materials meet appropriate national and state content- and performance-based standards (public schools),meet rigorous standards of excellence (independent and private schools)and are developed with content and pedagogy experts.


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Professional Development

The Cloud Institute offers professional development to our primary audience:  K-12 educators and administrators. We also offer professional development to higher educator faculty, staff, and administrators interested in moving toward sustainability. Sessions can be delivered on-site, in conference centers, or in our green office in New York City.

Faculty and administrators will develop a deeper understanding of applied education for sustainability and begin embedding the attributes of EfS into curriculum and instruction. Participants will engage in a more comprehensive examination and application of standards and performance indicators, mapping and alignment, curriculum design methodology including understanding by design/ backward design, assessment types and methods, and a review of exemplary units and student work. See workshops to learn about what we offer.

 

Consulting

The Cloud Institute consults with our clients over time in a variety of different areas. Examples include:

  • Develop an awareness and shared understanding of sustainability and education for sustainability (EFS) among the faculty and administrators

  • Strengths Analysis of Formal and Operating Curriculum to look for evidence of Education for Sustainability core content standards and performance indicators and instructional practices

  • Increasing and improving EfS curriculum units and curriculum mapping

  • Student Work Analysis Reports from existing curriculum

  • Curriculum revision, adaptation and design in keeping with Education for Sustainability core content standards and performance indicators

Consulting Services

Curriculum: 

  • Embedding EfS Content Standards and Performance Indicators into Curriculum and Instruction

  • Curriculum Design, Assessment & Mapping

  • Coaching  

  • Assessing and Improving EfS Content and Instructional Practices in Units and Courses

  • Assessing, Analyzing and Improving Student Work

Organizational Learning and Change:

  • Planning, Implementing and Assessing for Continuous Improvement

  • Strategic Planning, Implementation and Assessment with Leadership Team

  • Coaching
  • Faculty Planning, Innovation, Peer reviews and Collegial Collaboration

  • Linking Performance Assessments to Curriculum Documentation and Mapping

  • Assessing and Improving Organizational Practices
  • Research and Development

 

Online Coaching

We offer online coaching via skype or other programs which enables us to come right to you. Coaching is offered in four hour increments.