Judith Jensen, Ed.D. |
Welcome to the Educational Solutions Website.In our 2012 offering, we tell two stories of science in action to save salmon. Our purpose is to introduce scientists as real people doing careful work to help solve social and ecological problems. Salmon survival is linked to the Klamath River conflict over scarce water, sometimes framed as farms vs. fish. Funded by the Gordon Elwood and Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundations, our material centers on two Oregon research projects. Project CROOS, at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, is developing ways to sustain salmon populations and the commercial salmon industry. At Oregon State University, Associate Professor Jerri Bartholomew is leading research on C. shasta, a lethal salmon parasite in the Klamath River. Both research projects use genetics and ecology to solve complex problems. Based on these documentaries and additional content, we offer a high school biology curriculum, successfully tested in Spring 2011 classrooms, now adapted for online use.
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"Sustaining Salmon: Fishermen, Scientists, and Project CROOS"
“Saving Salmon: Bringing C. shasta Back into Balance”
Online High School Curriculum
“Learn Genetics to Save Salmon”
Since the Klamath Basin Water Crisis of 2001 and the 9/11/2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Educational Solutions has worked to develop ways to prepare students to move beyond polarization and to solve conflicts.
Our mission has been to complement traditional learning by providing balanced material for students and citizens to learn about and discuss challenging issues that divide communities and nations.
Sometimes the material represents different stakeholder perspectives on a contentious issue. Students can have the opportunity learn conflict resolution techniques and discuss issues with students from different stakeholder communities. Sometimes our material introduces science research projects that may help solve a problem underlying a conflict.
ES has developed and tested educational materials that present balanced information, relevant science, and conflict resolution practices to prepare high school and university students to address divisive issues.
Klamath River Basin Conflict over Water
We completed two projects for students from six high schools in the Klamath River Basin where the water conflict was too often framed as “farms vs. fish.” Students studied and discussed via the Internet different stakeholder perspectives, social and science challenges and possible solutions.
Our work for the last two years has been with biology students from five Klamath River Basin and Oregon Coast high schools. Students studied and discussed via the Internet two major Oregon research projects using genetics and ecology to save salmon. The rational for these projects was to address declining salmon numbers in the Klamath River.
Over the last ten years Educational Solutions has completed five documentaries on problems and solutions relating to the Klamath River Basin’s water crisis. These documentaries have been distributed on DVD to libraries, schools, community groups and government agencies. They have also been broadcast on community television and Southern Oregon Public Television.
Our two most recent documentaries, available on this website, are “Saving Salmon: Bringing C. shasta Back into Balance” and “Sustaining Salmon: Fishermen, Scientists, and Project CROOS.” Both are also available on YouTube and will be aired on Southern Oregon Public Television in February 2012.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Religion Culture
We completed several projects introducing university students to the competing Israeli and Palestinian narratives. The first projects involved professors and students at the Oregon Institute of Technology and the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. We then worked with students and professors at Al Quds University in the Palestinian West Bank and Bar Ilan University in Israel.
UPDATE:
Educational Solutions, an Oregon 501 (c)3 nonprofit, is moving to inactive status in 2012.
We discontinued our work on the Israeli Palestinian conflict in 2009 because after Gaza, all Palestinian universities were unwilling to work with Israeli Universities. The Arab Spring increased the difficulty of working in the region.
We are discontinuing our work in the Klamath River Basin because of difficulty raising funds.
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