Education Programs
Turtle Protectors Co-founders are experienced educators. Carolynne Crawley and Jenny Davis offer in-person and virtual field trips:
Two hour field trips in High Park during nesting and hatching season (May to October): Each session will include a welcoming and closing circle and a walk with engaging activities.
One hour school assemblies: Carolynne and Jenny bring in large turtle puppet used in the annual parade and share an engaging slideshow presentation.
In addition to learning about two of Ontario's Species at risk (Midland Painted Turtle and Snapping Turtle), students will leave with a shift in perspective.
All experiences will focus upon reconciliation through the concept of Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing), spoken of by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall. In Marshall's words "Two-Eyed Seeingre fers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing and to using both of these eyes together.”
