Pre-Conference Workshops 2024

Pre-conference workshops require advance registration and an additional fee.

Workshops were held on Wednesday, November 6. This list is for reference only.

FULL DAY
8:30 AM–4:30 PM EST

Affiliate Workshop

Price: $58

Join leaders from across the NAAEE Affiliate Network as we gather to celebrate the great work of the Network, spend time learning from each other's challenges and successes and participate in two professional development sessions focused on emerging needs in our work. Includes lunch.

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Centering Culture & Equity Through Community Engagement and Evaluation

Price: $58

Gain ideas and resources to design learning opportunities that uplift equity, varied identities, cultures, and communities. This interactive session interweaves NAAEE’s Community Engagement Guidelines with culturally responsive, equitable evaluation through the eeVAL project. Some understanding of evaluation and justice is encouraged. Ideally, participants join as teams of two from an organization/community context. Includes lunch.

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Amplifying Youth Voices: Equity and Civic Engagement in Environmental Learning

Price: $38

Discover top tools for amplifying youth voices in environmental civic learning. Learn how to use criteria-based decision-making, democratic processes, and asset mapping to foster equity and empower marginalized communities. Equip yourself with the best strategies for meaningful youth engagement and impactful environmental civic action.

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Youth Mental Health in a Changing Climate: Keys to Resilience

Price: $38

Join environmental health experts and climate educators to bridge the gaps related to climate change and its impact on youth mental health. How can we equip our youth with mental and behavioral health tools for use during climate-related emergencies and how can our educators support these topics?

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Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Developing Skills for Networking Success

Workshop CANCELED

If you're feeling a healthy dose of nervous excitement about networking effectively in a post-pandemic world, you're not alone! You will build a bridge toward success in this fun and interactive workshop focused on peopling skills for young professionals that can be immediately applied at the NAAEE conference. This workshop is part of NAAEE’s Young and Emerging Professionals Initiative and is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association for Environmental Educators.

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Transformative Role Play Simulation for Negotiating Contentious Environmental Issues

Workshop CANCELED

FIRE IN THE FOREST is an exciting and fast-moving interdisciplinary role-play simulation in which teams represent displaced farmers, Indigenous tribespeople, a U.S. bank, environmental conservationists, government officials, intermediaries, and media. Participants are tasked with negotiating a solution among the widely divergent stakeholders. You can find a description of the role play on fireintheforest.org.

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Bridging Wild Pedagogies to Environmental Education

Price: $38

This workshop invites teachers and students to consider education differently through "Wild Pedagogies." (Jickling, et al.) Discover how using the six Wild Pedagogies Touchstones challenges dominant paradigms of education while inspiring relational and ecological teaching and learning. We will embark together on reimagining, rethinking, and rewilding education.

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Creating Thriving Leaders, Creating Thriving Teams

Price: $38

In this interactive workshop, participants will reflect on how they maintain their well-being and the well-being of the teams they are part of. They'll receive a toolkit to help maintain their well-being and build thriving teams. They'll leave the workshop with specific well-being-related goals and inspired to take action.

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Systems Thinking to Enhance Your EE Leadership

Price: $38

Join Compass Education for a session full of systems thinking tools and games to develop your EE leadership capacities! This session will provide educators of all kinds with resources to reflect, grow, and enhance their impact. Plus, you’ll identify a learning or networking goal for the rest of the conference.

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Using STEELS 3D Learning Science Practices: Connecting Nature to All

Price: $38

Developing deeper observation skills is a helpful technique that supports NGSS and STEELS science practices as well as connecting folks to nature. This method increases access and equity as it requires few materials, is appropriate for folks with disabilities, and can be accomplished anywhere. This training was developed by Lawrence Hall of Science.

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Using the New "Educating for Climate Action and Justice: Guidelines for Excellence"

Price: $38

Take a deep dive into the newly published Educating for Climate Action and Justice: Guidelines for Excellence—the newest member of the NAAEE’s Guidelines for Excellence Series. The guidelines are designed to assist educators in developing and implementing effective programs that focus on climate change, address injustice, and spark action.

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