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• Spring 2025 eeCourse: Accessible by Nature: Designing EE to Support All Learners

  • Start
    April 30, 2025
  • End
    June 15, 2025
  • Location
    Online - Moodle

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  Spring 2025 Accessible by Nature: Designing EE to Support All Learners 

  Description: This course uses the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible and challenging for all, rather than making modifications for individual students. UDL improves and optimizes teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn, giving all students equal opportunity to succeed. This course is designed to encourage you to reflect deeply on your practice to focus on how you plan and teach to support all learners. The course content and associated assignments are geared towards practicing environmental and outdoor educators. We hope this course will inspire you to strengthen your pedagogical practices so they are more welcoming, inclusive, and accessible.

  Timing: This roughly 6-week course takes an approximately 12 hours to complete. The course runs from April 30th through June 15th, 2025. This course is offered on a quarterly basis. 

  Format: This is an asynchronous online course. 

  • All activities must be completed independently on your own time/schedule within the 6-week timeframe. 

  • We will provide a suggested timeline and periodic reminders to encourage the timely completion of assignments. While we want to be flexible, we also want these learning experiences to be meaningful and we think timely and periodic work in the course will benefit participants more than trying to complete coursework at the last minute.

  • Coursework includes watching videos, reading articles, posting on public forums and Padlet boards, and writing/recording personal reflections.

  • The course is managed through Moodle - participants will be sent an invitation to access the course on the start date. 

  The course will be moderated by Amy Williams, Ed.D.

  One graduate unit is available upon completion of the course (the unit costs $79 and is purchased separately from University of San Diego). Note that you must also submit a certificate of competition in order to receive your transcript.

  Course content was designed by Michelle Silvers of Silver’s Lining PLLC, Estrella Risinger with AEOE, Michelle Pearce and Lauren Pyle with the Environmental Educators of North Carolina (EENC), with contributions from Rebekah Jones and the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning.

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• Environmental Educator Certification Program 2025-2026 Application

  • Start
    May 01, 2025
  • End
    June 30, 2025
  • Location
    N/A

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  The Environmental Educator Certification Program (EECP) runs August 2025 through June 2026. Program graduates will achieve certification and have the option of purchasing nine Graduate Units through University of San Diego (paid separately). The Program is designed for educators with a minimum of two years of teaching experience. Learn more about the program here. Please read through the website thoroughly before applying; we also strongly suggest that you attend an informational session. Paying this nonrefundable application fee does not guarantee you a spot in the program; in addition to paying the fee you must demonstrate readiness by completing this application form. 

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• Environmental Educator Certification Program Info Session

  • When
    May 14, 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Online

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  Are you interested in becoming certified as an environmental educator? Want to strengthen your resume, increase your skills, and make valuable professional connections across the state? Consider applying to California's Environmental Educator Certification Program (EECP)! Join our info session to hear an overview of the program. Be sure to bring your questions! 

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• Webinar: Paws, Claws, & Jaws: Resources for Learning About Wildlife

  • When
    May 20, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Webinar: Paws, Claws, and Jaws: Resources for Learning About Wildlife

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  Tuesday, May 20 – 4pm Pacific

  An engaging workshop that will bring the fascinating world of carnivores and omnivores to life! We will ‘pounce’ into Wildsight’s new Paws, Claws, & Jaws: Predator Learning Kit, a unique resource that includes real scat and track replicas, allowing you to study the signs of predators up close. This is the second kit that Wildsight has created, following up on their very popular Animal Tracks & Traces Teaching Kit that was released in 2024.

  In this interactive session, we’ll explore predator behavior, survival strategies, and the vital roles carnivores and omnivores play in our ecosystems. You’ll learn easy-to-implement activities and lesson plans, along with practical tips for integrating these resources into both outdoor and classroom learning. Walk away feeling inspired and equipped to bring thrilling predator explorations to your lessons—and discover how this hands-on kit can ignite your students’ curiosity about the wild world around them.

  Offered in partnership by The Outdoor Learning School & Store and Outdoor Learning Partners:
  

  

  • Registration is FREE and there will be plenty of draw prizes for attendees!
  • All registrants will receive a discount code to access outdoor learning resources when they register
  • For those who can’t attend live these will each be recorded and posted on the Outdoor Learning School & Store's Recordings Page
  • Following the workshop, participants will receive a link to access a Certificate of Attendance

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• Webinar: Being Held and Known by the Land: Indigenous Resources for Outdoor Learning

  • When
    May 27, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Webinar: Being Held and Known by the Land: Indigenous Resources for Outdoor Learning

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  Tuesday, May 27 – 4pm Pacific

  With Author, Ethnobotanist and Community Educator Styawat / Dr. Leigh Joseph

  Styawat / Dr. Leigh Joseph is an ethnobotanist, researcher, and community activist whose aim is to contribute to cultural knowledge renewal in connection to Indigenous plant foods and medicines. As part of this mission, she founded Sḵwálwen Botanicals, an Indigenous business creating small-batch botanical skincare products based in British Columbia, Canada. Honoring traditional Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) plant knowledge, they incorporate wild-harvested plants and organic, high-quality ingredients. She shares her Indigenous plant knowledge in written form in her books Held by the Land and The Land Knows Me. She is a member of the Squamish Nation.

  Join Styawat / Dr. Leigh Joseph to learn about Indigenous plant relationships and how we are all connected to nature through plant-based foods, medicines, and materials. The best way to learn about plants is through observing and interacting with living examples. Leigh will share how you can strengthen your connection to the Land where you are through exploration, such as harvesting herbs and other plants and using them topically, sharing North American plants that can treat common ailments, add nutrition to your diet, become part of your beauty regime, stories and traditions about native plants from the author’s Squamish culture.

  Offered in partnership by The Outdoor Learning School & Store and Outdoor Learning Partners:
  

  

  • Registration is FREE and there will be plenty of draw prizes for attendees!
  • All registrants will receive a discount code to access outdoor learning resources when they register
  • For those who can’t attend live these will each be recorded and posted on the Outdoor Learning School & Store's Recordings Page
  • Following the workshop, participants will receive a link to access a Certificate of Attendance

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• Environmental Educator Certification Program Info Session

  • When
    June 02, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

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  Are you interested in becoming certified as an environmental educator? Want to strengthen your resume, increase your skills, and make valuable professional connections across the state? Consider applying to California's Environmental Educator Certification Program (EECP)! Join our info session to hear an overview of the program. Be sure to bring your questions! 

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• Webinar: New Indigenous Learning Resources for the Elementary Years

  • When
    June 03, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  Webinar: New Indigenous Learning Resources for the Elementary Years

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  Tuesday, June 3 – 4pm Pacific

  With Indigenous Authors, Artists and Educators Leona Prince, Leah Marie Dorion and Myah Birrell 

  Join three fantastic Indigenous educators as they share about Indigenous Learning Resources suitable for elementary-aged learners. From connecting to story, understanding and appreciating cultural teachings to deepening curiosity and nature connection through an Indigenous inquiry lens, this workshop will give you lots of Monday-ready takeaways to embed in your learning setting.

  Offered in partnership by The Outdoor Learning School & Store and Outdoor Learning Partners:
  

  

  • Registration is FREE and there will be plenty of draw prizes for attendees!
  • All registrants will receive a discount code to access outdoor learning resources when they register
  • For those who can’t attend live these will each be recorded and posted on the Outdoor Learning School & Store's Recordings Page
  • Following the workshop, participants will receive a link to access a Certificate of Attendance

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• Summer 2025 eeCourse: Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Education

  • Start
    June 20, 2025
  • End
    July 30, 2025
  • Location
    Online - Moodle

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  Summer 2025 eeCourse: Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Education

  Description: This course is designed to provide a strong foundation in Traditional Ecological Knowledge and ways of knowing. It is meant to be an introductory course and spark interest in further learning around how we can more intentionally and respectfully incorporate traditional ways of knowing into our environmental and outdoor learning programming.

  Timing: This roughly 6-week course takes an approximately 12 hours to complete. The course runs from June 20th through July 30th, 2025. This course is offered on a quarterly basis. 

  Format: This is an asynchronous online course. 

  • All activities must be completed independently on your own time/schedule within the 6-week timeframe. 

  • We will provide a suggested timeline and periodic reminders to encourage the timely completion of assignments. While we want to be flexible, we also want these learning experiences to be meaningful and we think timely and periodic work in the course will benefit participants more than trying to complete coursework at the last minute.

  • Coursework includes watching videos, reading articles, posting on public forums and Padlet boards, and writing/recording personal reflections.

  • The course is managed through Moodle - participants will be sent an invitation to access the course on the start date. 

  The course will be moderated by Jasjeet Dhanota.

  One graduate unit is available upon completion of the course (the unit costs $79 and is purchased separately from University of San Diego). Note that you must also submit a certificate of competition in order to receive your transcript.

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• Virtual Environmental Education Career Fair

  • When
    December 02, 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Online | Zoom

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  Calling all job seekers and employers! Join us for a virtual environmental education career fair. Site leaders will be grouped into breakout rooms, where they will make a pitch for their organization/worksite, share any current or upcoming employment opportunities, and end with Q&A. Job seekers will choose several rooms to attend. Interviews will not be conducted during the event, but if you make a connection you can exchange contact information and plan to follow up. Find your next dream job in environmental and outdoor education! 

  The primary focus is on employers based in California, but all are welcome to attend. 

  Participating employers to be announced closer to the event.

  Note, you don't have to be actively seeking new employment to attend - it can be beneficial to learn about different programs and opportunities even if you're happily employed where you are or haven't entered the field yet!

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