Sensemaking
What environmental education looks like today
It doesn’t have to look like what it did yesterday
Sensemaking
It doesn’t have to look like what it did yesterday
Experience
Stop looking out there for answers
Career Growth
These questions will help you with the decisions you need to make
Career Growth
I was invited to create an engaging activity for families. Invitations like this usually mean I pack my car with tables, a chair, my 10’x10’ canopy, a hand truck, and supplies. It also means I pay to participate. This time was different. Before the event, arrangements were made for
Environmental Skills, Reimagined
...there was a bookstore.
I once had an assignment for a publication. It involved a lot of pre-work, also known as pre-reporting. I reached out to prospective sources to ask if I could interview them for an article I was writing. I did research to check the merits of my story. All of this
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Exploring its use in environmental education
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When do you know it's time to explore a new path?
While social media might get you in front of new strangers, it may not increase your visibility with those you want to engage with. That is, your smallest viable audience (i.e., the core audience of people who will pay for your workshops or services). Your visibility can increase if
The problem... You're invisible. People don't even know they should look for you. Have you ever felt this way? If so, I hear you and know the feeling. It doesn't feel positive or productive. How might you move past this? I fall back on
"A higher individual at my institution said being an informal educator is 'a calling' and as such those called to do it should expect not to be paid very much." – Respondent in a survey administered by Rende et al. (2021) Kathryn Rende and her colleagues shared
How are you with change?
Why messaging needs to change