Lo Lyness
Curriculum Specialist

Ms. Lyness works in the Curriculum and Instruction office of the Inyo County Office of Education. Her background includes many years with Monterey County's Outdoor Education program as a teacher, site director, and program administrator. Central to her work is the belief that people's lives are enriched by personal interaction with their physical environment. Accordingly she says, "I also believe that without an environmentally literate citizenry, the future of human life on this planet is tenuous at best." In addition, she says her teaching experience confirms her view that young people learn best by doing. Ms. Lyness says the Eastern Sierra Watershed Project is exciting to her because it embodies three values:
1. It provides an opportunity for young people engage in hands-on activities to study the natural environment within a context of real-life issues confronting our local resource managers.
2. It applies research that indicates teachers learn best when they have many opportunities to collaborate and apply their learning in a continuous cycle of learning, reflection, and application.
3. It gives local teachers an opportunity to draw on their own strengths and expertise as they learn about best science teaching practices and apply them to their classroom instruction and the development of a strong curriculum for the Watershed Program.