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Project Summary The Missouri team is planning to strengthen and expand their state EE association, the Missouri Environmental Education Association (MEEA), over the next two years. Through a "ground up restoration" the team hopes to forge a stronger, more sustainable association and raise Missouri�s environmental education capacity to a new level. These activities will include several forums to gather input from environmental educators throughout the state, as well as the creation of a strategic plan for the association. |
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Missouri Hosts Successful Literacy Summit As part of the EETAP States Program, the Missouri Environmental Education Association recently hosted the MO Environmental Literacy Summit. Over 90 environmental stakeholders, representing education, business, government and non-profits attended. The goals of the Summit were to review accomplishments since the 1994 Governor�s Task Force on Environmental Literacy, evaluate current environmental literacy needs and issues, and begin developing action plans for the future. After an evaluation of the 1994 Task Force, participants agreed that there were many environmental education accomplishments within the state in the past 10 years. However, few were specific to recommendations of the 1994 Task Force. There has been an increase in non-formal EE providers, development or expansion of various stewardships programs, development of new curricula and curricular standards, and the creation of a fledgling support network to provide professional development opportunities and certification. The Summit participants identified three crucial environmental literacy needs: the promotion of stewardship values, changes needed to move EE forward, and providing infrastructure for EE. Specific issues were identified within these three needs. The Summit participants and others in the Missouri EE field will now work at developing action plans for these areas. For more information contact MO EETAP Project Manager Ollie Bogdon at (816) 918-2586 or obogdon@aol.com.
Missouri EETAP Team Gets New Project Manager The Missouri EETAP Team has named Ollie Bogdon as their new project manager. Ollie grew up in rural New York, and received her Bachelor and Masters of Science from Cornell University. While at the Kansas City Zoo for nine years, she completed her PhD in Education and Public Affairs Administration. She has since moved to Missouri, where she serves as a Board Member for the Missouri Environmental Education Association. NEEAP would like to thank Syd Hime for her leadership during the past two years. We look forward to working with Ollie. Please update your contacts accordingly.
Ollie Bogdon, MO EETAP Project Manager |
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