SLEWS Academy

The SLEWS Academy trains education and natural resource practitioners in the SLEWS Program model.

Since 2014, the SLEWS Academy has trained 23 individuals representing 10 organizations in the SLEWS model. These organizations are engaging local high school students from their region in habitat restoration and education at 5 different project sites from Colusa to San Bernardino counties. Combined with the 8 projects that SLEWS Legacy funds are helping to support in the Sacramento region, we are able to provide hands-on learning experiences on farms, ranches and open spaces for more than 500 students this year.

The SLEWS Academy timeline is:

  • Three-day Intensive Training in person (near Woodland, CA): January 30 — February 1, 2024
  • Six Monthly Online Sessions
  • Culminating Retreat and Project Implementation Planning Session: August 21 — 22
  • Individual Program Support
  • SLEWS Network


Participants in the SLEWS Academy will have access to the SLEWS Network, an ongoing opportunity to transmit knowledge and share new resources with a community of Center for Land Based Learning's certified practitioners.

If you are interested in participating, please see the Complete Information Packet for more information and complete this Interest Form.

SLEWS Program student holding up a plant she is about to place into the ground