Blog
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NAAEE praises House Labor, HHS. and Education Subcommittee Appropriations for Title IV, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Learn about using mud in your natural classrooms. Read about a bilingual, green preschool. Find out how to register yourself and/or your exhibit at the October NAAEE conference in Madison. Keep up with the latest ECEE news and job opportunities.
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Many students, teachers and school personnel have an interest in “greening” their school but have no idea of how to start. Read about how an environmental education consultant and her daughter engaged their local high school in the GreenSchools movement by strategically including all school…
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DEADLINE PAST - - NAAEE has embarked on an exciting venture and we would like to ask for your assistance. NAAEE is developing a sixth set of guidelines as part of the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education.
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On May 26, 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme unveiled a resolution entitled, “Investing in human capacity for sustainable development through environmental education and training” during the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Science magazine stated: "Scientists have produced many reports, charts and animations to measure climate change over the decades. But few have achieved the resonance of this one from scientist Ed Hawkins, hailed for its stunning simplicity."
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NAAEE is seeking real-world stories of how environmental education has benefited the learning and lives of K-12 students and teachers, and we would love to hear from you!
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Tuesday, July 26, at 3PM EST:
“To be effective, collective impact must consider who is engaged, how they work together, and how progress happens.” Don't miss Dr. Nicole Ardoin speak about the potential for cross-sector coordination to initiate large scale social change in the next installment of… -
Meet educators at a large urban elementary school in a high-poverty, high-crime area of Los Angeles. Read about the "Parent's Guide to Nature Play" that will inspire and make nature play easy. Catch up on nature preschools in the news. Learn how to take an active role in the new Council of Nature…
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Today: June 8 at 3PM EST
Considering a wide array of perspectives helps us be more effective and creates an environment that allows us to honor our diverse beliefs, attitudes, languages, interpersonal styles, and values. NAAEE will host a panel of experts on diversity and inclusion in environmental… -
William Scott blogs about the first NAEE/NAAEE joint meeting in Bristol, England, drawing people from Botswana, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Taiwan, the UAE, the UK, and the USA for the GEEP international steering committee meeting.
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Follow the link for the key findings and commentary from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication's report on "Global Warming and the U.S. Presidential Election".
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This blog post by founding director of Forum for the Future outlines an approach that just may turn your thinking around on one of those days when you find addressing Climate Change as something that's just too depressing.
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Sc3 Student Fellow Sophie Stern shares her thoughts on her experience at the Student Climate and Conservation Congress (Sc3)
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Environmental education advocacy call this Thursday, May 5th
Please join us for our monthly advocacy call, Thursday, May 5, 2016, 1-2:00 EDT. There will be an update on the introduction of a Senate climate education bill in a few weeks, and we’ll have more information on how states are responding… -
Learn about exploring energy with STEM outdoors, a nature preschool in remote Alaska. Find out how to register for the Nature-Based Preschool National Conference. Explore job opportunities, and more!
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The unequal representation of people of color in environmental work is a situation that many of us know needs to change. We realize that in order to make real impact on the environmental issues that affect us all, we all need to be a part of the conversation.
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Read on to learn how participating in EECapacity's CCC Fellowship impacted the president of the MERITO Foundation, its work, as well as over 800 students in California through the creation of the Energy Efficiency to Mitigate Climate Change and Ocean Acidification (EECCOA) program.
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We need cities that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just. Urban EE can help debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren, and city people don’t care for, or need, nature.
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NAAEE and Kettering have released the first issue guide, Climate Choices: How Should We Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet? Learn more about the Environmental Issues Forum (EIF) and how to get involved in helping the initiative.
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August 15–17 in St. Paul, MN
Registration now for the 4th Nature-Based Preschool National Conference designed for professionals working in nature and forest preschools. -
Learn about how you can do mindfulness and yoga with preschoolers to enhance children's learning and build essential skills for life. Travel with a naturalist and travel writer as he takes his baby on an epic journey to remote India. Hear about job opportunities in our field, and more.
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Catch up on the national press on nature-based preschools, find out how to join the new Council of Nature and Forest Preschools, travel to Kenya to check out an international school with a sustainability focus, and more.
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How to build awe and a connection to nature... Going with the flow of children's excitement may be a way for adults to begin to feel again, to have the emotion using our senses of seeing, hearing, and feeling.
