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Kristie Wagner is a middle/high school science teacher near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After 6 years in the classroom, she is now focusing on raising her two sons, and teaching them everything she can about their world and environment. She has taught and created curricula for Biology (9-10), Physical Science (7-10), Anatomy and Physiology (10-11), and Environmental Science (11-12), as well as K-6 Summer Enrichment (WI Wildlife and Intro to Science) in her first 6 years of teaching, and will continue to develop and improve content within her current practice to address issues and misconceptions with climate change. Kristie hopes to impress upon her students, and her children, the importance of taking care of our planet and understanding climate change within different content areas. She has worked extensively with the NGSS and WI State Standards to help her achieve that goal.

Kristie chose to earn her Master of Science in Ecological Teaching and Learning (ETL) through Lesley University (Cambridge, MA). She has worked to apply the skills and knowledge she gained from this program in her teaching, as well as her own personal life and actions during the program and since its completion in January of 2018. This program was designed for educators to develop and increase their own understanding of Ecology, the environment, systems and sustainability through place based learning in order to develop and take new tools with them into the classroom to help enrich their students' learning experiences in those areas. These experiences provide a strong foundation for helping others begin to understand the importance of their role and connection to climate change.

With her background in K-12 education, Kristie happily brings a specific set of skills to the eePRO community geared towards using the NGSS standards within science content areas for both middle and high school levels, and a knowledge base working with many useful resources for both classroom and non K-12 environmental education settings.

Professor of science and environmental education at Brock University. Interested in environmental learning and interdisciplinary teaching E-STEM and curricula

I love community science, wildlife population trends, and investigating human-wildlife conflicts. Weaving these topics into programs to enhance environmental literacy and help humans have been connections with wildlife is my passion. Check out my podcast "Catching Them All" on Apple and Spotify!

Mona currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa and works for The Breteau Foundation, an organisation that provides support, teacher training and digital tools to underprivileged schools. At the Breteau Foundation, Mona is responsible for teacher training and classroom technology implementation in the South African schools and overall programme management of All of Africa.  In the last nine years, Mona has expanded the South African project from a two-school pilot, to an ever-growing programme serving 80+ primary schools in rural and urban township areas across Africa. Mona is honoured to put her passion into this global technology initiative that currently reaches nearly 135,000 students!

 

Carla Gull is the coordinator of the masters of art of environmental education program and associate professor at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College in northern Indiana. She has over 20 years of experience in the education field at the preschool, elementary, and college levels. Dr. Gull enjoys helping educators incorporate more nature in the everyday early childhood setting. She hosts a podcast, Loose Parts Nature Play; facilitates an international group, Loose Parts Play; and presents workshops, presentations, and academic research around loose parts, tree climbing, STEM outdoor classrooms, and nature education. She is coauthor of the book, Loose Parts Learning in K-3 Classrooms. 

I am the Outdoor Learning Specialist in the Math and Science Bureau at the New Mexico Public Education Department. I have been an educator for over the past 15 years in both New Mexico and Colorado, I most recently was the Director of Environmental Education and Technology at Cottonwood School (Corrales, NM) but spent my previous five years at Department of Cultural Affairs at the Sandia Mountain Natural History Center (Cedar Crest, NM) as an Environmental Educator and Certified Wilderness First Responder. I am excited to connect the work that has been done through the Senate Memorial 1 Task Force, Environmental Education New Mexico (EENM), Department of Cultural Affairs, and teaching! I have  bachlors degrees in environmental engineering, technical writing, with a masters curriculum and instruction, and a teaching license. 

I am a graduate student pursuing my masters in environmental education at Florida Atlantic University. I spent over 6 years in public health and emergency management before deciding I wanted to focus on my true passion, the environment. I am now gaining invaluble experience as I work splitting my time as a graduate teaching assistant at FAU Pine Jog Environemental Education Center and as an environmental educator at Friends of MacArthur Beach State park. 

My dissertation research was on 3-6 year-olds' connections to nature in a nature-based Montessori school. I have 13 years of experience teaching in K-12, math, science, ELL, and health in Botswana, the United Nations International School in Manhattan, and public school in Minnesota. Twelve years teaching in higher education, primarily teaching integrative STEM to pre and in-service teachers. A founding board member for a Montessori school and for a nature preschool at an ELC in SE MN.

A committed community development leader and nature photographer, Miguel is currently pursuing his Environmental Educator Certification to focus on conservation photography and other visual arts.