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  we are so excited to launch our educational content.

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  Like a lot of businesses, we've pivoted to make our

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  content available online, and now our courses are available.

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  So I wanted to make a quick video to help

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  books understand kind of what's available and what that platform

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  or using and what courses were gonna be providing both

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  now and in the future.

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  So if you don't know me, my name's Nicole the

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  Namer eye on the Order of Sustainable Strategies.

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  I'm also the instructor, so I think it's important to

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  give ah, quick bit of information about my background respect

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  to teaching, So I'm a lead green associate.

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  I'm also, well, AP if you're less familiar with, well,

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  building standard.

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  It's very similar in many ways, complimentary to lead focus

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  their being on health and wellness, respect the built environment.

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  I'm also an attorney.

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  I practiced construction in an insurance law for about 10

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  years in the Seattle area before launching sustainable strategies and

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  then more specifically, with respect to teaching.

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  I've developed and taught to graduate level classes, so first

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  class eyes entitled Risk and Reward and Sustainable Development at

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  the University of Washington.

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  I created that class and talked for about five years.

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  Second class is was at the Boston Architectural College.

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  I was asked to develop and deliver an online class.

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  They're entitled policy and planning.

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  It's part of the master's program and designed for human

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  health that exists at Boston Architectural College.

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  I'm also an award winning contributing author.

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  I wrote a chapter of the editor book Health and

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  Well Being for Interior Architecture on that book won the

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  Interior Design Educators Councils 2018 Book Award.

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  So I apply this experience teaching.

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  Both will live and online courses to creating and delivering

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  the content that we can provide practitioners as part of

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  our service.

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  Is that sustainable strategies?

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  So what does that look like?

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  We chose the teachable platform.

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  If you're not familiar with teachable, I found it to

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  be very user friendly, very clean, interface on and pretty

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  intuitive as well.

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  So nice thing about it is, once you've signed up

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  for course, it's always available.

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  There's actually also app that supports the courses.

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  So if you have some free time and are available

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  to view your course materials on your phone, you can

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  use utilize the app we can upload written materials, documents,

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  interactive surveys.

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  There's a lot of different tools within the teacher will

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  act to make really engaging content.

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  And the best part, from my perspective, is that teachable

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  interfaces very well with Prezi.

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  I only use President in my teaching, and that's been

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  the case for years.

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  I find it to be so much more engaging.

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  Students find it to be much more engaging.

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  They I understand the content better that retain it better

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  and presidentially, has some research to back up some of

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  those factors and president of faces really well with teachable.

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  So all of our teachable courses do and will contain

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  recorded Prezi videos, and I think that really helps our

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  audience understand the concepts and engage with it.

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  So I want to give a couple examples of just

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  how powerful that iss, uh, help folks getting a little

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  bit of a better understanding.

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  So, for example, if it's part of course, I wanted

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  to show a document and talk students through it a

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  little bit.

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  You could put the document up, zoom in a specific

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  parts and even highlight or underline specific aspects to that

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  could be part of the lesson.

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  So it's really powerful in that regard.

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  It also interfaces really well with photos.

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  We could integrate photos like this photo of the bullet

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  center and then draw students attention, for example, to solar

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  array and discuss that as part of our lesson.

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  So the integration with President, I think, makes, uh, a

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  teachable platform, really powerful and engaging way to deliver the

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  content. So that's what we use.

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  So what are some of the topics?

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  Topics relate to our work in sustainable strategies and my

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  background as an educator's obviously health and wellness.

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  That's actually the free course that we now have available.

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  We have two courses up on the website.

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  You can look at our course patient any time, but

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  the first free course that we have available is entitled

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  Fostering Health and Wellness Indoors.

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  So if you're just interested in learning more about hot

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  in your environment, can impact well, positively negative negatively human

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  health. Take a look at that free course, check it

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  out, and then, for folks who want to dive a

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  little bit deeper, the paid course that we currently have

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  available is entitled Defining Green.

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  It's actually, of course, that I used in my class

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  at the University of Washington, and it's a really interesting,

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  I think, dive into defining green what that term means.

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  How the law implicitly and explicitly defines Green go through

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  a bunch of examples, really challenge people to think about

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  the assumptions and experiences that they bring to those vague

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  terms and how those terms, um, impact communities and the

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  legal issues and risks that they potentially pose So fun

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  class that one's available for continuing education for Washington lawyers

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  as well, which I'll get to that in a minute.

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  But health and illness greenwashing as well.

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  Um, how about weight it from a marketer standpoint, what

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  to look for from a consumer standpoint, insurance particular with

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  how that intersects with climate change and some of the

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  risks associated there?

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  Emerging issues like impacts, leases some of the transition back

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  toe work, which employees and employers are gonna face a

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  some point in the near future and then concepts religious

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  risk in innovation, which is really ah, large part of

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  sustainable strategies work.

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  So we've got some courses available on our website gonna

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  go secure that and then, um, he's just some topics

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  that will also explore in the future as well as

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  teaching other people how to teach that something will be

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  looking at two.

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  So continuing education are getting asked questions about this.

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  All of our courses are available to a general audience.

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  You don't have to be a lawyer.

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  You don't have to be a lead AP or, well

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  AP if the topic with subject matters of interest after

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  you can read the preliminary page courses are available to

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  anyone who wants to learn more about the topic we're

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  able to do is add some additional value to Washington

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  lawyers, um, currently and hopefully in the future to lead

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  a piece.

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  And well, I hope he's in the form of continuing

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  education credits.

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  So of course, Page will be very clearest, while they're

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  not, is whether or not the course is eligible for

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  continuing education and then also provide instructions for reported those

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  continuing education credits.

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  So keep that mind, um and that's just in additional

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  benefit that we can provide to some practitioners.

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  But all our courses are available to the general audience

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  and then costs, as I mentioned, you know, ever is

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  having a tough time right now, so our courses are

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  free for practitioners who just want to learn more until

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  our courses are paid courses.

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  Try to keep those rates competitive.

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  A CZ.

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  We could've moved through this process.

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  And all of our courses are also subject to basically

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  a 30 day money back guarantee.

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  If you don't like the course you weren't happy with

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  it. I didn't learn what you thought you wanted, Thio.

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  Let us know what in those 30 days and we'll

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  work with you and basically get your money back if

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  the course didn't deliver what you wanted to.

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  So this is a new area for us if you

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  have questions, feedback and encourage you to check out the

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  free course that we have available now, um, let us

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  know if you want to hear other topics.

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  If you run into issues, if you love the course,

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  we love the her feedback, because that this is a

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  new venture for for us.

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  And, um, yeah, where did you just share?

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  A little bit more about it.

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  So I hope you enjoy the courses and be well