About Us
The Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative (UVTPC) brings together educators and professional development providers to support place-based and ecological education in schools across Vermont and New Hampshire’s Upper Valley.
Our Vision:
We envision an Upper Valley where all students are deeply engaged in education that fosters ecological understanding and connection to places.
Are you in the Upper Valley?
Click here to see a list of Upper Valley Schools of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Meet The Team!
Joan Haley
Program Director
Principal & Co-Founder
Education for Climate Resilience
leigh ann reynolds
Coordinator
NHEE Administrator
NH Environmental Educators
Hannah Gelroth
Steering Committee Member
Senior Director of Education
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Meena Gyawali
Steering Committee Member
Initiative Leader, Environment
Wellborn Ecology Fund
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Lisa Purcell
Steering Committee Member
Founder & Executive Director
Four Winds Nature Institute
Christine Scales
Steering Committee Member
Director of Education & Interpretation
Billings Farm & Museum
Place-based Ecology Education Providers
Connect with UVTPC to enhance your professional practice. Support is available throughout the year and comes in many forms. Learn about citizen science protocols during the school year and summer break through teacher trainings. Connect with professional environmental educators who can join your classroom to deliver hands-on lessons. Work with your students to do real research and present your findings at science symposiums. Click to be directed to their websites.
Vital Communities
Four Winds Nature Institute
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Our Partners
Our Funders
WELLBORN ECOLOGY FUND
ENCOURAGING LOCAL SCIENCE EXPLORATION
The Wellborn Ecology Fund is dedicated to increasing environmental and ecological science knowledge in the Upper Valley.
Marguerite Wellborn was a naturalist and a writer who believed that knowledge was the key to environmental preservation. In her will, she left nearly $10 million to create the Wellborn Ecology Fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, “to be used for public awareness of environmental and ecological issues in the Upper Valley.”
