Blog
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A series of workshop outlines designed to help you plan and lead professional learning experiences focusing on each of the six Guidelines for Excellence publications produced through the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education.
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CEE-Change Fellow Angela Rivera Rautmann talks to NAAEE's Carrie Albright about her community action project. During her time as a 7th-grade science and social studies teacher at Patrick Marsh Middle School, Angela's community action project provided students with an opportunity to not only dive…
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In this Harvest Stories, Jesse Baines of Atlantic Sea Farms shares how a team of kelp farmers use education to positively impact coastal communities as climate change makes landfall and wild fisheries are disrupted in Maine.
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Join SEI as we take a look at some of the highlights from this semester of the Climate Corps Education Outside training program!
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NAAEE and the U.S. EPA provided over thirty ee360+ scholarships to help make the conference more accessible to professionals and students who showcased their work in communities impacted by environmental injustice and climate change thanks to this funding.
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Ankit Pandey, senior associate at Climate and Sustainability, Swaniti Initiative and EE 30 Under 30, discusses how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can transform higher education and create sustainable societies.
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NAAEE will unveil the new eePRO on December 16. Read for more details.
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In this post, EE 30 Under 30 Leader Mariam Kabamba discusses how climate change, hunger, and education converge and introduces four environmental educators working toward solutions.
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CUBE Co-Founder Therese Keita describes working towards advancing STEAM-equity and climate action on the African continent.
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Basaija Augustine, director of the Youth Conservation Education Project, faces a unique community conservation challenge and its repercussions in schools.
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Plangnan Damshakal, founder of the Eco Friendly Africa Initiative, details climate change impacts in the Sahel region.
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Mahawa Komala is an environmental educator advocating for the sustainable use and management of community forests in Liberia.
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Dr. Jeremy Solin shares how he connected to the land and made it his business. We make meaning by seeking associations with the land. Aldo Leopold saw it this way: "When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." When we see things through the eyes…
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As environmental educators, it can be easy to focus on problems like climate change, deforestation, and extinction, but that can have negative impacts on young generations. Rather than inspiring them to care more, this can sometimes have the opposite affect by causing young people to feel helpless…
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The "culture of danger," as in child-proofing homes, daycare facilities, and outside play areas, has touched every aspect of early childhood education. How can one go about playing in backyards and play areas when one lives near bears, moose, and coyotes? It is all about acquiring knowledge of…
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Dive into the story of an Ohioan partnership linking people and small businesses across the state through education, and follow the yellow perch's journey from source to plate in the latest Harvest Stories.
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After college, I became disheartened that environmental education was not the career path that I wanted to continue. Every position I saw offered low wages, part-time, or volunteer work. Then I found Westgate Community School (WCS), a K–12 charter school unlike any other. Environmental Education and…
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NAAEE is in the early stages of developing a set of guidelines focusing on climate change education and climate justice as part of the Guidelines for Excellence series. We envision that this set of guidelines will provide a set of recommendations for developing and implementing community-driven…
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CEE-Change Fellow Eileen Boekestein poetically expresses how the environmental education career journey isn't a pipeline, but a braided river of ever-changing entry points.
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Affiliate leaders are needed to help inform a new Affiliate Fund at NAAEE. We anticipate engaging approximately 8 individuals, including Affiliate leaders to advise the design of an RFP and serve as reviewers for funding requests.
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Guest writer David J. Backes shares the wisdom of Sigurd F. Olsen who is as relevant to connecting to nature today as in 1987. In the advancement of climate solutions, Backes describes how "hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up."
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What's the Worldwide Teach-In? Learn about a bottom-up educational event led by educators and community members.
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Members of the Climate Change eePRO Group met at the NAAEE Annual Conference in October 2022. This blog recaps what was discussed and shares links to resources that were mentioned during the session.
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CEE-Change Fellow Justin Kaput found that passion and dedication can be tested and ultimately victorious when fostering climate action in students, even when a global pandemic intervenes. Over two years, Justin's students created and adapted their Climate Walk events to allow for a truly meaningful…
