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15th Annual Research Symposium, Spokane #NAAEE2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018-Wednesday, October 10, 2018
On behalf of the conference committee, RS co-chair Marcia McKenzie, chair Alan Reid, and past chair Nicole Ardoin, we warmly invite you to attend this year's RS in Spokane.
Read on to find…
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World Environment Day attracted significant support, including an exciting announcement from host country India to curb all single-use plastics by 2022! We could all use a bit of good news these days, so if you have a few minutes, check out World Environment Day's website.
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Multnomah Education Service District and Outdoor School provides a supportive learning environment for all students and ensures everyone feels they belong and are welcomed at their facility. Read how their program integrates transgender and gender nonconforming students into their residential…
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Now is the time for environmental educators to reach out to school district administrators about using applicable funds in the Every Student Succeeds Act for EE. States will receive their federal funds by July 1, and school districts will be submitting their plans for using ESSA funds over the next…
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The world’s top oil company executives are gathering at the Vatican for a two-day conference on climate change and the possibility of transitioning away from the dependence on fossil fuels. This is a follow-up action to Pope Francis’ 2015 paper, “Laudato si,” in which he focused on the importance of…
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Just one week left to submit your 30 Under 30 nominations!
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Project Learning Tree (PLT) is thrilled that 6 PLT GreenSchools, one PLT school district and one PLT institution of higher education are among the 46 schools, 6 school districts and 6 institutions of higher learning recognized this year as U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS)
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1A (for First Amendment) radio host Joshua Johnson explores the complex relationship African-Americans have with nature in this podcast interview with Rue Mapp of Outdoor Afro, Carol Carolyn Finney of Kentucky University, J. Drew Lanham, author of "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love…
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A question arose as I watched two interpreters provide a lesson for two-year-old children in a park somewhere in the US. One of those children was my youngest grandson, a typical two-year-old who loves to explore. From that experience I posed in my mind the following question: Is Any EE Better Than…
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Earlier this month, Riveredge Nature Center hosted a three-day event series for middle schoolers, homeschool families, and community members around one simple idea: How can technology help us learn and explore nature? Read about the main outcomes and key partners that made this new event successful…
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Sierra Nevada Journeys (SNJ) held a Taking STEM Outside: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Bootcamp 2018, in May, for K-12 Nevada and California educators. This hands-on workshop was a combination of learning how to incorporate Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) into the classroom with…
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Read a multicultural perspective about a Danish forest kindergarten. Watch our recent webinar about successful tools for nature-based documentation. Learn about the Wonder Bugs preschool model program. Read the latest issue of the International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education…
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Audubon is committed to increasing the diversity of their staff, board, volunteers, members, and supporters, and to fostering an inclusive network of Audubon Centers and Chapters in all kinds of communities, from rural to urban. View Audubon's short 5-minute video to inspire your own inclusion…
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The 2018 Green Schools Conf & Expo (GSCE) was held May 2-4 in Denver, CO. The conference offered engaging educational sessions, case studies, hands-on workshops and lectures from today's green school experts and provided an unmatched opportunity for green school advocates nationwide to collaborate…
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The June 2018 installment of NAAEE's monthly webinar series featured a roundtable of dynamite speakers working to connect research and practice. Watch the recording to learn more about how these organizations are working independently and together to build the evidence base for advancing…
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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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Guest blogger Dan Kriesberg shares an essay reflecting on the importance of outdoor education and effective teaching learned over 30 years of being in the field. Dan is a science teacher at Friends Academy (NY). He also is the author of "A Sense of Place: Teaching Children about the Environment with…
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Here’s an important date to note on your fall calendars. October 29, 2018 is the trial date for Juliana v. United States, the constitutional climate lawsuit brought by 21 young people to assert that the U.S. government has failed to protect essential public trust resources. It would be great to hear…
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For the May 2018 installment of NAAEE's monthly webinar series, we heard from Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Born to a Filipino mother and Malayali Indian father, Aimee is a writer and poet best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of nature and landscapes.
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Help us set the standards for K-12 environmental education! We are in the process of revising the K-12 EE Guidelines for Excellence, first published in 1999 and updated about every five years since then. Our writing team developed this second review draft and we're inviting you to review this draft…
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We are so excited to announce the launch of a new research library: eeRESEARCH. This database is a partnership between the North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE) and the Children & Nature Network (C&NN), with support from the Pisces Foundation. With more than 1,000 peer…
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The following article is written by Josef Kittinger, the former director of a retreat center in the mountains of western Austria, Sankt Arbogast.
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In an interview conducted over 20 years ago, Carl Anthony, founding director of one of the nation’s first environmental justice organizations, Urban Habitat, shared his reflections on the early efforts of the first Earth Day and the environmental movement. His thoughts are still timely and can be…
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Learn about the upcoming World of Wonder conference in August and register! Read feature stories on nature pedagogy and journaling. Find out how early childhood environmental educators are documenting outdoor learning on the April 24 webinar. Find other professional development, job opportunities…
