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How to frame the environment in conversation
Why messaging needs to change
There are Other Ways to Do Environmental Education
What does environmental education (EE) look like for me today?
Journalism.
I don't do EE the way I used to. I no longer do events, activities, botanical art classes, museum presentations, or travel to events with my bookstore.
I do, though, continue to do something I've
Create a Professional Development Program
Train nontraditional informal science educators
When Questions Sting
Addressing unanswered questions
Growth or Professional Development
What’s your preference?
Put yourself on the map
Help build a database of transformative experiences
Build a sustainable practice
Reaching for more can feel like progress, but it comes with a cost.
Storytelling and Climate Solutions
Climate solutions across sectors
Tell better science stories
Everyone likes a good story.
Stories can be used to teach concepts in understandable and engaging ways. In spite of this, the use of narrative formats in the sciences can encounter resistance (Katz, 2013). How, then, can narratives be used when communicating science topics?
An answer to this question is
Where Science Communication Isn’t Happening
Environmental professionals who work independently move through their communities and lead programs at locations that extend far beyond the footprints of zoos, nature centers, gardens, and other informal science learning organizations. Even so, they do not engage with the public in every place or in every way possible. Today'
Solutions Journalism for Environmental Educators
Change the conversation
The Skills No One Names
How often have you seen yourself in a job description?
Defining ‘freelance’
It’s a problem.
Leaving environmental education
After deciding to leave
A Different Role
What might it be like?
What does environmental education look like in other sectors?
What roles are missing?
Ask for a Viable Career in Environmental Education
Are the skills that make you an effective environmental educator working against you when it comes to advocating for the professional and economic value you bring to a project?
‘Freelance Isn’t Free' Act
Payment in 30 days, noncompete agreements and more
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