OUR WORK
Professional Learning 

Certification and Recognition

ATEEG Educator Certification is a nationally-accredited certificate for non-formal educators and K-12 teachers based on successful completion of a three-part course and assessed independent project 

EE Credentials are short, self-paced, online courses

EE Specialist Certificates and graduate credit

EEA PRO (provider recognition for observance of best practices) is a distinction for organizations and agencies that offer high-quality, cost-effective, equitable and inclusive, Georgia Standards of Excellence-aligned environmental education and outdoor learning in Georgia (coming soon)

CoOL Schoolyard Certification will be offered at three levels for schools where learning happens outside (coming soon)​

Conferences and Professional Learning Workshops

​Whether you're a PK-12 teacher, professor, naturalist, interpreter, ranger, riverkeeper, environmental educator, curriculum developer, or student, there are professional learning opportunities that can increase your capacity. For more information, email info@eealliance.org.

• EEA helps educators and schools find professional learning opportunities to fit their needs
• EEA offers Monarchs Across Georgia educator workshops and sponsors Project WET and Adopt-a-Stream workshops 
• EEA designs and delivers customized professional learning workshops for school districts. 

Join us for Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia

EEA's CoOL Outdoor Learning Symposium: NOV 7

EEA's MAG Educator Workshop: JUN 24

EEA / SEEA Regional Conference: MAR 20-21

Make This the Year You Become a Certified Environmental Educator!

Are you serious about increasing your capacity for teaching through an environmental lens? Are you ready to engage students in real-world investigations? Then, get certified as an environmental educator through ATEEG, EEA's nationally-accredited professional learning program. 

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Learn to Teach Project WET, Project WILD & Project Learning Tree!

These classic environmental education workshops are as effective in making teachers feel comfortable outside as they are in providing curriculum resources and offering strategies for managing students. Each workshop provides a curriculum book to participants. Click below to learn more.

DIY Professional Learning for Environmental Educators

Learn About Research-informed Best Practices in the Guidelines for Excellence in EE

EEA promotes best practices in environmental education through the Georgia Guidelines for Excellence in EE Project, which offers professional learning workshops, self-paced courses (currently in development), and technical assistance to schools, environmental education providers, and others. The Guidelines project was created by NAAEE and coordinated by Bora Simmons, with feedback from all over the world. Read or download copies of each set of the Guidelines by clicking the sections below.

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Guidelines for excellence: EE in K-12 learning

Guidelines for excellence in EE Materials

Guidelines for excellence in professional learning for environmental educators

Guidelines for excellence in non-formal EE PRograms

Guidelines for excellence in early childhood ee programs

Guidelines for Excellence in Community engagement

EEA Guidelines trainers BUREAU and facilitators

Help Students Solve Environmental Problems with GREAT Projects

High school students studying environmental science are often distressed and disengaged when learning about negative human impacts on the Earth. Research shows that an antidote to this despair can be found in graduated challenges that allow students to identify and solve bite-sized, real-world problems. "Project-based learning" (PBL) empowers students to make a difference in the world. Captain Planet Foundation offers a storyline-style, scaffolded approach to PBL called GREAT Project Pathways that incorporates phenomenon-based, three-dimensional learning and offers students "voice and choice" in designing and directing the work.

Increase Your Skills in Leading Outdoor Science 

Beetles offers virtual, self-paced, professional learning sessions for program leaders of outdoor science investigations. K-12 teachers and non-formal educators will benefit from these two- to three-hour modules. 
Build your skills and increase your capacity to lead environmental education in outdoor settings.

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Assessing for learning

Constructing understanding

Evidence and explanations

​field journaling

making observations

Nature and practices of science

promoting discussion

questioning strategies

teaching and learning

Outdoor science experiences for students

other resources for K-12 teachers

About beetles

Check out STEM Practice Briefs for Culturally Responsive Teaching

These STEM teaching tools were developed as part of a National Science Foundation grant initiative by Philip Bell. 

Brief 15: Promoting Equity in Science Education

Brief 25: culturally responsive argumentation

Brief 54: equitable learning in the science classroom

brief 55: making cultural diversity visible in stem​

Brief 57: How place-based education supports equity

Professional Learning based on STEM Teaching Tools

Build Capacity to Lead Field Investigations

The Pacific Education Institute promotes high impact field experiences and real-world science for all students, in an effort to advance scientific literacy and sound decision-making for a sustainable world.

dESIGNING HIGH IMPACT FIELD EXPERIENCES

ngss aligned field investigations

PRoject-based Learning investigations

Schoolyard biodiversity investigations

fostering outdoor observation skills

technology for field investications

Field engineering projects for grades K - 5

field engineering projects for grades 6 - 12

K-3 Schoolyard investigations

solution-oriented storylines

Brush up on Content Knowledge in Environmental Education Topics

Bozeman Science and The Wonder of Science websites, created by science teacher Paul Andersen, provide short videos explaining every topic taught in environmental science, as well as core ideas related to each Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) at every grade level. [Although Georgia did not adopt the NGSS, there is substantial overlap in topics and content.]