EE in Mexico: Exploring the Sonoran Desert Bioregion on a Fieldtrip to CEDO in Puerto Penasco, Mexico

October 16, 2018/0 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by Shawn McCrohan

At the 2018 North American Association for Environmental Education Conference in Spokane, WA, it was all about the power of networks and creating a force for the future. Over 30 countries were represented at the event, including Ghana, Botswana, Nepal, Ireland, New Zealand and Mexico. EE is a global movement, and when we are united […]

2018 Outstanding NAAEE Affiliate Award Goes to AAEE

October 15, 2018/4 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by Shawn McCrohan

We are pleased to announce that the Arizona Association for Environmental Education has won the 2018 Outstanding NAAEE Affiliate Organization Award! All of our Board and committee members have worked so hard over the last two years to reinvigorate this association and participate at the national level. Thanks to everyone who has contributed time and […]

Guidelines for Excellence in Community Engagement

NAAEE’s Guidelines for Excellence: Community Engagement Guidelines Workshops

October 15, 2018/0 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by LoriAnne Barnett

Betsy Wilkening (Education Coordinator, Tucson Program, Arizona Project WET) and LoriAnne Barnett (Education Coordinator; USA National Phenology Network at UArizona) attended the NAAEE 2018 Pre-Conference Train-the-Trainer Workshop for delivering best-practice content to our communities using the Community Engagement Resource, Number 6 in the broader NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence Series. This set of Guidelines focuses on […]

2018 NAAEE Conference Recap!

October 15, 2018/2 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by LoriAnne Barnett

Our AAEE Affiliate had awesome representation at the 2018 NAAEE Conference in Spokane, Washington last week. We counted at least 12 folks from Arizona (I’m sure there were more unknown to us, yet!) and enjoyed a Coffee Meetup on Friday morning to share ideas for collaborating in the future. Presentations from Arizona members included talks […]

Growing Big Ideas in the Garden

September 24, 2018/2 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by Ellen Bashor

A School Garden Story By Ashley Fine Over the past decade, our staff, students, and families at Skyview School (Prescott, Arizona) have been continually expanding our school’s learning gardens. Currently, Skyview has several edible gardens throughout campus, a large native plant and pollinator garden, and an extensive rainwater harvesting system. The gardens around campus are […]

Is that even STEM?! Early EE & Nature Play

September 24, 2018/0 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by Ellen Bashor

Before the buckets of sticks, branch cross-cuts, rocks, shells, moss, and more were even unpacked the children tiptoed in. As if drawn by an unseen magnetic force, tiny hands reached for the sticks, “tree cookies”, and shells, and we heard the excited question again and again and again, “Are these real?!” Earlier in the month […]

AAEE Board Member, Ellen Bashor, to Implement Innovative Educational Program in Arizona

August 26, 2018/0 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter, Community Connections /by Shawn McCrohan

ELLEN BASHOR AWARDED COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP FROM ‘ee360’, NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TRAINING PROGRAM Arizona, August 17, 2018—Thirty-two outstanding Fellows from around the world have been selected by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) in cooperation with U.S. EPA to help address community environmental and social issues around the world. Ellen Bashor, of […]

School Gardens? AAEE Digs Deeper

July 3, 2018/2 Comments/in AAEE Newsletter /by Ellen Bashor

“Join the United States School Garden Army; Enlist Now!” reads the World War I poster of a young girl pushing a plow and looking determined in her red, white, and blue attire. Although the school garden army didn’t last, the battle to get a garden in every school continues. Posters like this were spread across […]

AAEE Celebrates Earth Day!

May 10, 2018/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Ellen Bashor

The year is 1970. Over 500,000 copies of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring have been sold in over 24 countries, civic engagement is on the rise, and awareness of the connection between environmental and human health has entered dinner table conversations in homes across America. Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, announces a plan for […]

Arizona Association for Environmental Education Supports #RedForEd

May 2, 2018/0 Comments/in Community Connections /by LoriAnne Barnett

The Arizona Association for Environmental Education stands with #RedforEd. We stand with the Arizona teachers who are struggling with inadequate wages, inadequate funding for supplies, and inadequate buildings to teach in. We stand with the children whose educational experiences are diminished due to this lack of funding, despite the inspiring compassion and generosity their teachers […]