The Pumping Station provides partial funding and organizational support for the New England Workshop on Science and Social Change and other CPR spaces characterized by:
- Innovative workshop processes
- Training and capacity-building
- Repeatable, evolving workshops
- Tangible outcomes and experiences developed beyond the workshop
Upcoming or recent workshops
- Impossible to Simply Continue Along Previous Lines: Changing Life in Times of Crisis (postponed to date TBA)
- Past NewSSC workshops, since 2004
The Pumping Station also provides organizational support for Collaborative Explorations, an extension of Project-Based Learning (PBL) and related approaches to education in which participants address a scenario or case in which the problems are not well defined, shaping your own directions of inquiry and developing your skills as investigators and prospective teachers (in the broadest sense of the word).