[PAEE] PAEE Conference - Town Meeting

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The Town Meeting described below will be held at the PAEE conference on Saturday, March 21, at 1:00. Other highlights that day are 25 workshops, some field studies, the awards reception, and the concert by John McCutcheon. This is an opportunity you don't want to miss. Go to www.paee.net for the registration form and get it Beth by March 4.  Ruth


Environmental Education in the New Millennium: A Town Meeting

 

After almost one full decade of the 21st century, where is environmental education headed?  Last year’s keynote told us the movement has failed:  is this true?  At this special conference gathering, the state’s environmental education community assembles to engage in a hearty discussion of our present and future.  Is the children’s back-to-nature movement gaining traction?  How do we leverage the resurgent interest in greening and sustainability?  Will an Obama presidency make a difference to the environment or education?

 

A panel of veteran environmental educators will discuss these and other questions in a highly interactive town meeting format.  Roy Boyle, former science teacher and professor of education at St. Francis University in Loretto; Dede Long, leader in the nature center movement and executive director of the Briar Bush Nature Center in Abington for the last 30 years; Toronto’s Tim Grant, former high school teacher and editor of Green Teacher, the nonprofit environmental education magazine; Kathleen Paul, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Environmental Education; and Donnan Stoicovy, award-winning principal of Park Forest Elementary School, a green building in State College.  The town meeting is moderated by Mike Weilbacher, former president of PAEE and director of the Lower Merion Conservancy.




















Ruth Roperti
965 Edgewood Road
Beaver Falls, PA 15010

rroperti at zoominternet.net
724 843 7046
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