Leadership Development

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Sagebrush to Seaweed Environmental Education Leadership Clinic 

June 17-20, 2009    McKenzie River Conference Center, Oregon FREE!!!!!!

The Environmental Education Association of Oregon is pleased to present the 2009 Environmental Education Leadership Clinic. Community teams interested in working together to plan and implement educational projects with a watershed improvement focus are encouraged to attend this innovative four day clinic. The clinic is being offered free of charge to all participants through a generous grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The 2009 EEAO Environmental Education Leadership Clinic will...

      ...serve local teams to cultivate creativity and innovation towards educational solutions for

          watershed stewardship, ecosystem protection and sustainability;

      ...bring together educators and community representatives (formal and non-formal educators,

           watershed council representatives and other community leaders);

      ...result in teams developing action plans for projects to implement in their home watersheds; and

      ...provide professional development and networking to support environmental education in local

          communities and throughout the state of Oregon.

Do you have a team in mind?  Each team needs at least one of each of the following: formal educator (classroom teacher), non-formal educator, watershed council representative and a community leader. Team size is 4-6 people.
 

The purpose of the clinic is to support your team. Activities at the Environmental Education Leadership Clinic include:

• Large and small group exchanges and sharing to help each team develop their own project.
• Activities designed and resources brought together to serve participating teams.
• Each team produces and commits to implementing its own action plan.

The objectives of the Environmental Education Leadership Clinic are to:

• Facilitate communication and networking among diverse groups of formal and non-formal educators to create a community of support and shared resources.
• Create frameworks and processes for collaborative service learning projects focused on watershed health, ecosystem protection and/or sustainability.
• Clinic participants will gain new skills based on their identified needs for successful project implementation.
• Introduce new perspectives and ways of thinking about advancing environmental education through nurturing new partnerships and community improvement projects.

The core Environmental Education Leadership Clinic principles are:

• Everyone has something to give; everyone has something to gain.
• Self-managing teams can chart their own learning.
• Model the process in order to widen the circle.
• Play and art promote learning and productivity.
• There is enough expertise in the room to change the world.
• Event design is itself a collective, community building process.
• No two teams experience the clinic alike and no two clinics are alike, they are driven by the participating teams.

To apply for participation download and submit the attached application form.