JANUARY 2025 LCAS PROGRAM

Teacher Training Brings Wildlife into Classrooms

Tues, Jan 14, 2025 – Program begins 7:00PM              Montana Wild, 2668 Broadwater Ave.                              Free- All are Welcome

Ryan Schmaltz will describe the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks teacher training sessions that are conducted all over the state. The focus of this training is to get Project Wild and other fish and wildlife curriculum into the hands of many teachers as possible. The curriculum aims to get fish and wildlife in all subjects in school. Hundreds of educators have taken advantage of this training which gets educators’ hands dirty learning about fish and wildlife and how to teach about it in schools. Each training session is typically a half day curriculum instruction and a half day of field experience with local Fish, Wildlife and Parks Biologists. Join us for this fun program to learn more about the incredible things teachers are doing around the state to teach young Montanans about protecting wildlife.

Ryan Schmaltz is an Education Specialist for MT FWP where he has worked for 12 years. He is the State Project Wild Coordinator and also trains about 200-300 teachers a year in that curriculum effort. He coordinates the NASP National Archery in the Schools Program. He also leads education programs here at Montana WILD.  Ryan was a Game Warden in South Dakota, Fisheries Tech in Utah and Idaho and worked for the Wildlife and Fisheries division in North Dakota. He is a South Dakota State Wildlife and Fisheries graduate and has a degree in Range Science from MSU.