How to reconnect with nature | Mark Walvoord | TEDxUCO
Mr. Mark Walvoord is an Assistant Director of the Student Transformative Learning Record and a founding Co-Coordinator of the Sustainability Center here at the University of Central Oklahoma. Through those roles he trains faculty and staff in impacting and measuring student learning, and he co-leads the Broncho Bites food recovery program. Although his previous degrees were in biology, he is completing his doctoral degree this year at the University of Oklahoma in their Learning Sciences program. He was the founding President of the Oklahoma Compost and Sustainability Association and serves on the boards of two nonprofits dedicated to education and poverty relief in Madagascar. Mr. Mark Walvoord is an Assistant Director of the Student Transformative Learning Record and a founding Co-Coordinator of the Sustainability Center here at the University of Central Oklahoma. Through those roles he trains faculty and staff in impacting and measuring student learning, and he co-leads the Broncho Bites food recovery program. Although his previous degrees were in biology, he is completing his doctoral degree this year at the University of Oklahoma in their Learning Sciences program. He was the founding President of the Oklahoma Compost and Sustainability Association and serves on the boards of two nonprofits dedicated to education and poverty relief in Madagascar. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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