EEA e-News  September 2021

EEA eNews September 2021
​In This Issue . . .

• CoOL Outdoor Learning Symposium is coming Nov 2!
  • Save the Date and Register
  • Submit a Proposal to Showcase Your Class or Facility
  • Symposium Sponsorship Provides Scholarships for Attendees
• URGENT Call to Action #1: GA Senate Committee on Outdoor Learning
  • Senate Seeks Your Thoughts on the Value of Outdoor Learning
• URGENT Call to Action #2: GA Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP)
  • Suggest that Education be Prioritized in the Final Version
• Monarchs Across Georgia (MAG) Opportunities
  • MAG Symbolic Migration Registration
  • Monarchs Across Georgia (MAG) free Workshops for Ag Educators
• EEA Board
  • Welcome to New Officers
  • Welcome to New Board Members
  • SEEA Regional Conference

CoOL Outdoor Learning Symposium
Mark your calendar for November 2!EEA’s Council of Outdoor Learning (CoOL) will host the Outdoor Learning Symposium on Tuesday November 2. Hope you’ll join us!
There will be exciting sessions on how to create outdoor learning spaces, overcome obstacles to teaching outside, and engage students in culturally-relevant, real-world investigations.

• Watch live-streamed tours of schoolyards and classes in action
• Propose a showcase session to spotlight your own class or facility!
• Learn about the latest research on outdoor learning outcomes

Do you take students outside to explore, observe natural phenomena, make models, or conduct real-world investigations? Does your schoolyard have a cool outdoor learning station such as a chicken coop, composter, root viewer, weather station, wildlife habitat or student work area? Let’s showcase it at OLS!
Click to Register, Sponsor, or Propose a Showcase Session

CALL TO ACTION #1:
Tell a GA Senate Study Committee how Outdoor Learning benefits your students
A bipartisan GA Senate Study Committee is conducting hearings and site visits to learn about outdoor learning. Your written testimony is needed to let the Senators know that outdoor learning is valuable to students and that support for professional learning, teaching resources and schoolyard improvements could enable ALL Georgia children to benefit.

​There are 3 ways to provide input:

• Join the Georgia Science Teachers Association virtual conversation with Sen. Rahman on Tuesday September 14 from 5:00 - 6:00.
• Share your written comments (and pics!) to this Google folder and EEA will forward them to the Senate Study Committee
• Email your comments to Senate Research staff member Keelin Cronin at keelin.cronin@senate.ga.gov

By December 1, the Senate Study Committee plans to publish their findings and possible policy or funding recommendations. We are grateful to Senator Sheikh Rahman, who is spearheading this initiative, as well as cmte. members Sen Sally Harrell, Sen Jen Jordan, Sen Ed Harbison, and Sen Burt Jones.

















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Hearing #1: Pictured clockwise from top left: Sarah Milligan-Toffler and Charmaine Godley of Children and Nature Network; Zipa Vokhiwa, President of EEA / Mercer Professor with Senator Sheik Rahman; Laurene Hamilton of Greening Youth Foundation; Ashley Rouse of Captain Planet Foundation’s Project Learning Tree; Darryl Haddock of EEA Board and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance; Sean Splawski, teacher at Mableton Elementary; Zipa Vokhiwa; Karan Wood of EEA; Senator Rahman; Ashley Rouse, Darryl Haddock; and Suzannah Koilpillai of OutTeach. Not pictured: Durrell Smith of Minority Outdoor Alliance; Randy duTeau of Sports Strategies; Jacki Harp, REI.

CALL TO ACTION #1: Click to learn more

 Happy 26th Birthday Symbolic Migration!​Join us for the 26th annual "Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration" with youth from across the United States and Canada.  In the fall of 2020, five thousand youth created symbolic butterflies and sent them to Mexico for the winter. Students in schools near the Mexican monarch sanctuaries protected the butterflies and sent them north in the spring of 2021.

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