The World We Want

Self-Design Course for Teacher Activists

How would we educate if we believed everything is interconnected?

About the Program
Teachers who share The Heritage Institute’s commitment to a world that works for all may now use our flexible, low cost self-design online course to earn needed clock hours, PDU’s or CEU’s, or 1-5 quarter credits. There is a great variety of local, regional and national events, meetings and more informal gatherings which relate in some way to a vision for an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on Earth. Teachers with interests in any of these areas may pursue their professional development needs by taking part in these kinds of learning experiences. Document your participation in your online journal in our easy-to-use online environment; take up to six months to complete your self-designed study.

What Qualifies
Events and experiences qualify which relate to a teacher’s professional situation and can include: sustainability/social justice/inner well-being conferences, workshops, events, association meetings, community film viewings, school garden or restoration projects, renewable energy education, local food, activist events such as marches and demonstrations, ecoliteracy, ecofootprint, eco-project design and implementation, eco-travel, global exchange projects, youth leadership coordination, some arts projects, speaker engagements, events put on by the educator themselves, including the planning, and more.

Most activities completed prior to registration will not qualify for clock hours or credit with some exceptions, see syllabus for more information.

This course structure allows you to combine your extracurriculuar activities that relate to your teaching and professional development.

For example, if you register for the 3 Credit course (21-30 hours) and you record ten of those hours as compassion events and related compassion curriculum projects, you have up to 6 months to record the remaining twenty hours in your online journal for any other events or activities relating to environmental sustainability, global studies, social justice or inner wellbeing. Your online environment is your “activity diary”.  When you complete the course, and have submitted to your instructor a signed authorization form (provided in the first online assignment), you will receive 30 clock hrs.

Be creative!!
Examples of World We Want projects:
• Meetings, student leadership facilitation and after-school planning for a social justice all-school event (January-March, 20 hours, or 2 quarter credits).
• Design, planning, and student work days to create an organic school garden project, attendance at permaculture classes and facilitation for a local sustainability symposium (December-May, 28 hours, or 3 quarter credits).

School administrator approval is required before clock hours or credit is awarded. Please contact instructor Ann Amberg with your ideas and questions: 360-221-2037 or email annamberg@whidbey.com

Note regarding multiple course registrations:
You cannot register for the same course number more than once.
You can however, register for each course number once or any combination of courses.

To Register
Begin by choosing your course number below. Register for a minimum of three (3) hours to a maximum of 50 hours (clock, PDU or CEU). 

Note: 10 Clock Hours = 1 CEU or 6 Clock Hrs = 0.6 CEU. 

Register online with a Visa or Mastercard (click on a course below) or by phone, at 360-341-3020.

ED442P  WORLD WE WANT: 1 Credit  3-10 Clock Hrs/PDUs or 1-CEU or 1 Qtr Crdt

ED442Q  WORLD WE WANT:  2 Credits  11-20 Clock Hrs/PDUs or 2-CEUs or 2 Qtr Crdts

ED442R  WORLD WE WANT:  3 Credits  21-30 Clock hrs/PDUS or 3-CEUS or 3 Qtr Crdts

ED442S  WORLD WE WANT:  4 Credits  31-40 Clock Hrs/PDUs or 4-CEUs or 4 Qtr Crdts

ED442T  WORLD WE WANT:  5 Credits  41-50 Clock Hrs/PDUs or 5-CEUs or 5 Qtr Crdts


University Credit
Teachers may opt to register for one (1) to five (5) Antioch University, continuing education quarter credits.  The additional work in terms of reading and written work is detailed in the online syllabus.

Getting Started
Once you complete the online registration, you will receive an email that contains instructions on how to log on to the online system to post your event/experience journal.