The goal of the Education Workgroup is to have every student in the region graduate environmentally literate having participated in meaningful watershed educational experiences in elementary, middle, and high school that were supported by teachers who have received professional development in environmental education and schools that are models of environmental sustainability. The Education Workgroup provides a forum for cross-jurisdictional coordination and support on all aspects of environmental education with an emphasis on:
The Education Workgroup is tasked with evaluating and recommending policies related to PK-12 bay education, maintaining the Bay Backpack website, and tracking state implementation of the MWEE in elementary, middle, and high school. The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office also convenes a biennial Environmental Literacy Summit on behalf of the Workgroup to advance environmental literacy activities in the region.
June 10, 2013
12:00pm - 2:00pm
At this important meeting we will discuss the development of a new Chesapeake Bay Program agreement and the proposed environmental literacy goal and outcomes, the status of the education metric development, and other key topics related to the Workgroup.
Conference Line: 877-917-0618
Participant Code: 1613714
Webinar Link: https://epa.connectsolutions.com/educationworkgroup/
Related Files:
06-10-13 education workgroup agenda (155.94 KB) The mid-Atlantic region is leading the nation in implementing sound policy that ensures our students will graduate environmentally literate citizens. To advance environmental literacy activities in the region, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office convenes a biennial Environmental Literacy Summit on behalf of the Workgroup. These summits provide an important forum for dialogue, collaboration, and coordination between federal, state, and non-governmental leaders about the future of environmental and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in the mid-Atlantic region.
Publication date: June 06, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...
Publication date: June 06, 2012 | Type of document: EducationManagement Plan | Download: Electronic Version
Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...
Publication date: March 08, 2001 | Type of document: EducationReport | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup seeks to define a common set of criteria to help the Bay watershed jurisdictions meet the intent of this Commitment of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. From these criteria, each jurisdiction...
Publication date: November 29, 2005 | Type of document: EducationAgreement | Download: Electronic Version
By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to continually work to ensure that students have been exposed to concepts in environmental literacy and have examined strategies to foster their restoration and...
Publication date: October 22, 2004 | Type of document: EducationBrochure | Download: Electronic Version
Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) serve as the foundation for a rich, lifelong relationship between students and their Bay.
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: EducationPolicy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay is dependent upon the actions of every citizen in the watershed, both today and in the future. The Bay's future will soon rest in the hands of its youngest citizens. Our students, future Bay leaders, should be armed...
