No Teacher Left Inside: Hands-on teacher training brings sustainability lessons to the classroom

Clad in oversized, thigh-high rubber boots, Sandy Benton stood in the Kinnickinnic River with a fishing net, sifting through mud with her bare hands.

“Sometimes you get these little, tiny snails,” she said, isolating a small shell about one-fourth the size of her fingernail.

Around her, a group of eight other teachers and educators scraped the bottom of the canal with four-foot-tall fishing nets, collecting mud samples. Some exclaimed as they peeked in their nets, noticing small creatures wiggling in the mud.

They were having a field day. Literally and metaphorically...

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