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This high school level teacher's guide is an introduction to the EIF guide "Climate Choices: How should we meet the challenges of a warming planet?" and how teachers and students can use a deliberative process to consider climate change choices.

This collection of essays regarding various aspects of urban environmental education will be part of the forthcoming "Urban Environmental Education Review" from Cornell University Press in 2017.

EE Toolkit: Approaching Environmental Issues in the Classroom, Defining EE, Designing Effective Workshops, Evaluating EE Materials, Integrating EE Into School Curriculum, Urban EE, Using Community Resources

Climate change is not only an environmental problem. It is also a public-health issue, a threat to national security, and an economic challenge of considerable magnitude. Only recently has the public debate shifted away from weighing the evidence to asking what we should do about our changing climate and the effects that are beginning to be felt. This issue guide is designed to promote meaningful, productive discussions, convened locally and online, about difficult issues that affect the environment and communities.

The Climate Choices issue guide was prepared for the National Issues Forums Institute in collaboration with the Kettering Foundation and the North American Association for Environmental Education. The Environment and Society Series is designed to promote meaningful, productive deliberation, convened locally and online, about difficult issues that affect the environment and communities.

This book is a collection of fifteen stories (or “professional profiles”) narrated by urban environmental educators and students in the Bronx, New York City. Published by NAAEE and Cornell University.

Report based on research conducted by NAAEE and evaluation partner, NewKnowledge, and funded by UL in 2013. Cal Water also supported the research effort.

For in-service and in-training educators, this book aims to advance understanding of settings, audiences, teaching approaches, and goals of urban environmental education.

Prepared for environmental educators and program evaluators, this book explores EE outcomes and measurement.

December 9, 2015 -- Press Release from NAAEE Director of Policy, Sarah Bodor on passage of the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaces No Child Left Behind.

A collection of resources and files produced by the Climate Change Environmental Education Professional Online Learning Community Alliance (POLCA), as part of the Professional Learning Communities of the EECapacity project.

Spanish version of the Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence (2004), comprises a set of recommendations for developing and administering high-quality nonformal EE programs.

IJECEE Vol. 3 (1) publishes scholarly articles pertinent to the education of all young children (birth to eight years), and is available in print or for free download. Environmental Education: Addressing, Issues, Policies, Practices, and Research That Matter

Learn how to design and conduct an evaluation by following the exercises, case studies, and examples in this workbook.

This collection of resources, perspectives, and examples will help nonformal environmental educators learn more about the field of EE, access resources and gain skills to improve their practice, and over time, build a community of practitioners to advance the field.

Climate, energy, and ocean sciences literacy crosswalks for teachers and curriculum developers.

Building off of NAAEE’s Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence, the Early Childhood Environmental Education Rating Scale is an evaluation tool designed to assist programs in improving their environmental education curriculum.

The Environmental Literacy Plan 2013 Report found exciting trends in environmental education through state ELPs that include linking schools, communities, and businesses to create change.

NAAEE was a member of NCATE, now called CAEP, from 2002-2013. NAAEE Standards for the Initial Preparation of Environmental Educators were approved in 2007. NAAEE is no longer a member of NCATE. From this page you can download the standards as well as forms and instructions for program reporting, and reviewer rubrics that were used at the time.