NAAEE says “Imagine if we treated educators and scientists like the superstars that they are. Imagine if everyone believed that they had the power to effect change, even in the smallest of ways”. To facilitate this, they launched a new podcast about climate resiliency and education on September 12th. You can listen to the promo here. With support from National Geographic,…
As we noted last week, although the ENSI secretariat has now closed, its website archive is still available. Syd Smith, former ENSI representative from Australia writes that a considerable legacy is left in place … What made ENSI unique over its 32 years of operation was its “emphasis on the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development across the…
Think Global announced the winner of the 2018 Global Educator of the Year Award – Samantha Olubodun who is a primary school teacher and a Specialist Leader in education, at Meadow County Primary School, Cheshire. She works within her school and County to help pupils and teachers to better understand the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s),…
NAAEE has announce the 2018 EE 30 Under 30 awardees who work across five continents and “are champions of energy, water, climate resilience, the Arctic, environmental health issues, and more. Through a wide variety of approaches including journalism, music, and gardening, they are working to create change in their communities and on the global stage.”…
NAAEE says that Wild Pedagogies: Touchstones for Re-Negotiating Education and the Environment in the Anthropocene Examines the concept of wild pedagogies as the geological epoch shifts to the Anthropocene Analyses the potential of wild pedagogy for the present and future Proposes six touchstones that can help educators and practitioners incorporate wild pedagogies into learning . The…
The Social Farms & Gardens website contains a wide range of resources including the Get Your Hands Dirty pack. An autumn campaign is planned to help raise awareness of the need for land-based qualifications. If you are not yet a member of Social Farms & Gardens (and within that the School Farms Network) you can click here and join – it is…
NAAEE is working with partners at Stanford University, the University of Florida, and the Children & Nature Network to get a better sense of how environmental educators and other professionals think about nature. You can help by responding to this short survey. Butterfly Conservation says that the Big Butterfly Count is now on, running from July 20th to August 12th.…
Learning Away has a new CPD training programme to help put together brilliant residentials which is going live in September. This has been developed with teachers and the modules draw on the real-life experiences and learnings from schools. The programme has two strands, one for the school leadership team and one for teachers. The programme aims to help develop…
Registration is open for the 47th NAAEE annual conference in Spokane from 10 to 13 October. It will focus on the power of education to create positive change for the future. NAAEE says: “EE is a force for building a more civically engaged citizenry. It’s a force for creating a more diverse and inclusive movement.…
London’s Natural History Museum says it’s all a flutter about scientists studying the way dragonflies fly in the hope of making small planes more stable and robust. It adds: “Dragonflies are some of the most mobile insects on the planet. They can control the angle and speed of each of their four wings independently to…