Blog
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For the December 2016 edition of our monthly webinar series, we heard from Dr. Joseph Kerski, the Education Industry Curriculum Development Manager for ESRI, a company that connects people with maps, data, and apps through geographic information systems (GIS).
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A short, expert legal analysis of a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the consequences.
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Climate Change Education eePRO group member Jennifer Hubbard-Sanchez and others from the eePro GROUP led a productive roundtable discussion at the 2016 NAAEE Annual Conference in Madison, WI. We talked about the challenges of and opportunities for increasing our impact through climate change…
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Communities in Nature Webinar #5: Evaluation on a Shoe-string, Kate Measures, Heritage Insider
Friday, 11th November, 2016 4pm - 5:20pm (GMT)
To get better at what we do we need to evaluate our activities and programmes, but often botanic gardens, museums and other informal education sites do not…
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Check out this update from Climate Generation as we anticipate COP22, to take place November 7-18 in Marrakech, Morocco. Read about the key issues and challenges to be addressed in Marrakech, sign up for COP22 updates, read the Climate Generation Delegation Blogs, and register for upcoming webcasts.
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The Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) needs your help in creating or updating your country's environmental education Country Profile!
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Check out some helpful tips for encouraging STEM learning, read about a new member who just opened her own nature-based preschool in Queens, catch up on the news and job opportunities, and mark down the dates for the 2017 Nature-based Preschool Conference in Seattle.
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Furr HS has used environmental education, student leadership, steadfast dedication and community support to beat tremendous odds, win a $10 million grant and transform their school and community in the process.
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I have attended 7 NAAEE conferences in the past 8 years in my capacity as Manager of Project Learning Tree's national GreenSchools program. This was the inaugural year having a standalone NAAEE Green Schools strand and now the sky is the limit!
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Join a national day of action as we join with stakeholders across the country in urging Congress to fully fund the Title IV Part A grant program of the Every Student Succeeds Act. This program, if fully funded, has the potential to dramatically increase access to EE in public schools.
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Read a recap of the 2016 Nature-based Preschool Conference, note the dates for the 2017 Nature-based Preschool Conference in Seattle, enjoy an interview with the director of Dodge Nature Preschool (one of the oldest nature preschools in the country), and check out the latest news and job…
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For the November 2016 installment of our monthly webinar series, our panel of experts on diversity and inclusion in environmental movements will be returning to continue this important discussion. If you have questions about diversity, equity, and inclusion in environmental movements that you would…
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This report from Edutopia challenges our ideas about using digital technologies as part of EE.
Some may consider technology to be a distraction or barrier, but this article reports on one educator's first hand experiences of how it can catalyze interest and enthusiasm around doing fieldwork in…
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Do you have questions about evaluation or assessment? Bring them to NAAEE's third annual Evaluation Clinic, where you can ask questions of the experts and contribute your own relevant experience. Learn from evaluation experts as well as peers through informal, roundtable conversations.
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Get ready for NAAEE’s annual Research Symposium, which brings together more than 150 new and experienced researchers from around the globe to explore the current state and future directions of environmental education research and to advance the use of practices proven to be effective.
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What are your urban EE program goals? Watch this short video presenting trends in urban EE and how you can apply them to your programs. This video is part of the EECapacity EEResearch Seminar Series.
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Read about ancient support networks and how we can help today's children spend more time outside, learn how St Louis's first forest school is mapping its parks, check out images of the recent Nature-Based Preschool National conference in St Paul, and catch up on lots more news!
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Awareness activity for children and adults in environmental education are disappearing. Where do we start to turn this around? We must start with awareness. The more the better.
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NAAEE's Director of Advocacy and Affiliate Relations, Sarah Bodor, will speak about the Every Student Succeeds Act and opportunities it provides for the field of EE in the next edition of our monthly webinar series on Wednesday, September 28 at 3:00 ET.
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The National Roundtable in Environmental and Sustainability Education in Pre-service Teacher Education was a success and resulted in a National Action plan and the Otonabee Declaration.
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This article explores the question of how we might evaluate apps in terms of their potential to promote environmental engagement in children. It recommends a specific rule for doing so: Apps that point beyond themselves, out into the world, can be meaningful tools for promoting environmental…
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Understanding young people’s meaning-making in social media and the experiences they acquire could help teachers to stage pluralistic and participatory approaches to classroom discussions about the environment and sustainability.
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We would like to include several examples of how environmental education is used across disciplines at the university level.
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Charles Orgbon III, a University of Georgia student and CEO of Greening Forward, observes in his Huffington Post blog that the well-intented effort to create more environmental organizations negatively increases competition in the field, dilutes effectiveness of the movement and confuses the general…
