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The Natural Start Alliance is hosting this year's largest national gathering of nature-based early education professionals online (July 29–31) with more content than ever before! Registration is open!
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Learn about zero-waste classrooms from Jacqueline Omania, a teacher in Berkeley, CA who started the Zero Waste Classroom Project five years ago to educate her students about the impact of landfill waste and plastics in the oceans.
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[Resources updated April 7] COVID-19: Events are being canceled. People are physically distancing. Confirmed cases are increasing. These are unprecedented times. Hopefully, this list of resources will help. I will continue to update it as time permits.
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here are 5 lessons and tips from the frontlines about how to turn students of any age into activists.
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This ee360 Fellow is rebuilding lives and transforming neighborhoods from Chicago to Detroit!
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The Nature-Based Preschool Professional Practice Guidebook is now available! Dive into this new resource from Natural Start Alliance to learn how nature-based educators offer programs that are safe, effective, and inclusive. The Guidebook is organized into four areas of practice: teaching…
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Learn how nature-based learning in early elementary school gained support from two veteran outdoor educators. Check out the spotlight on Brooklyn Park Nature Preschool’s equity and inclusion efforts. Start preparing for the 2020 Nature-Based Early Learning Conference. Read about the release of…
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Earth Force's Empowered STEM approach takes project-based learning to a new level.
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Communities across the globe are rethinking how we approach plastic use in our daily lives. Opportunities for recycling large portions of our plastics are diminishing, and communities are being forced to cancel parts of their recycling programs. What are communities, cities, and even countries…
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Register for the 2019 Natural Start Conference in historic Manchester, NH, July 31-August 3, to connect with an international community of nature-based early learning professionals. This is the nation’s largest professional event for teaching, administration, research, and advocacy in nature-based…
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On April 24, the Spring 2019 Drawdown EcoChallenge ended, and the 1,054 teams that participated (including an NAAEE Team) saved about 344,704 pounds of CO2 !!! For me, that's an astounding measure of what a collective, concerted effort can accomplish in Drawing Down our impacts ! If you missed this…
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In this guest blog, middle-schooler Dalia Melody Hembal shares her research on water conservation. To learn more about Grades of Green, visit https://www.gradesofgreen.org/.
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The Utah Society for Environmental Education (USEE) embarked on a Strategic Planning process during the summer of 2018. To ensure they were supporting the needs all of our environmental education communities here in Utah, USEE convened focus groups (called them mini-summits) in 5 distinct regions of…
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NAAEE and the Children & Nature Network curate and summarize peer-reviewed scientific literature to help build the evidence base for advancing environmental education and the movement to connect kids to nature.
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NAAEE is excited to share that our brand new podcast about climate resiliency called Imagine If is now available! Let's imagine if together!
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NAAEE is excited to share that we will be launching a brand new podcast about climate resiliency called Imagine If on September 12th. Let's imagine if together!
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NAAEE is pleased to announce that the search for the 2018 EE 30 Under 30 is now open (May 1 - June 11, 2018)! In partnership with the Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP), and U.S. Forest Service, the EE 30 Under 30 program is searching for individuals from around the world, 30 years of…
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Great new update on both FY 2018 & 2019 federal environmental education advocacy efforts.
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RECORDING AVAILABLE: Change the world by changing your story! You won’t want to miss hearing Andy Goodman, an expert in strategic communications, speak about the power of storytelling as best practice in the third installment of our monthly webinar series.
