Explore how GIS tools like ArcGIS StoryMaps transform local data, imagery, and video into immersive, place-based learning experiences. Using a real watershed virtual field trip from Sampson County, NC, discover how educators can expand environmental access, deepen understanding, and connect learners to their world — no bus required.
Working on an evaluation project and need support? Just want to learn more about evaluation? Join this 90-minute session to workshop your ideas and join the conversation. Using resources like eeVAL and EENC’s Embracing Evaluations course, we will explore common themes before breaking into small groups. Connect with peers and experienced evaluators to discuss questions, navigate challenges, and find promising solutions.
From Jump! From Day One! From the beginning is an important way to look at the connections that we have with the world around us. Being connected to the land around us is built into our connections to our ancestors as Black people. Years of trauma, racism, enslavement, and forced labor has made us uniquely connected to our sense of community and that creates some unique aspects for our connections to our environmental world and community.
This session will help nonformal and environmental educators prepare for leadership responsibilities rarely covered in traditional training. Led by Jonathan Marchal and Chip Freund, the session will explore practical approaches to skills such as marketing, hiring, budgeting, grant administration, supervision, and evaluation while helping participants identify peer expertise and conference connections that can support growth.
Chip is a former product marketing executive in the technology sector. In 2017 he began his encore carrer as a full-time fine art landscape and nature photographic artist and public speaker. Chip holds a BA with a double-major in environmental biology and computer science from Wittenberg... Read More →
What if your students saw nature as a design lab, not just a landscape? In this interactive workshop, you'll tackle a real NC environmental problem by heading outside to find nature's solution. You'll leave the workshop with a changed perspective on problem-solving and an inquiry method you can run anywhere, with any age, next week.
Discover what’s holding back school–community environmental education. This session reveals key barriers faced by middle grades educators, highlights inequities in access to partners, and invites you to help shape practical, justice‑centered solutions that make hands‑on, community‑rooted learning possible for every student!
