MEEA Members...Green Schools Webinar Opportunity.

Hello MEEA Members...
We thought this upcoming webinar might interest many of you!
Click here to register: http://www.classroomearth.org/gswebinars

Going Green through the Curriculum Webinar
The National Environmental Education Foundation (www.neefusa.org<http://www.neefusa.org/>) in partnership with the National Education Association Foundation (www.neafoundation.org<http://www.neafoundation.org/>) and Green Schools National Conference (www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org<http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/>) is hosting its third webinar to help educators around the country learn from experts and peers how to green their schools and curriculum. In this series of three webinars, participants will interact live with national experts and teachers who are transforming their schools for the 21st Century.

Wednesday January, 18, 2012 7pm EST- 8:30pm EST
Whether you are an environmental educator or a classroom teacher, you will love this webinar!  David Sobel, Gerald Lieberman, and Jennifer Seydel have teamed up to provide you with some ideas and practical strategies to use the local community and environmental issues to teach science and socials studies content AND improve reading, writing, and math skills!

David Sobel, Senior Faculty
Antioch University New England
David will provide examples of how teachers use local case studies to integrate the 3rd-8th grade standards in social studies, science, reading, writing, and math.  These examples are illustrative of how teachers across the country use place-based education to meet and breathe life into state standards and benchmarks.

Gerald Lieberman, Director
State Education and Environment Roundtable
Jerry will discuss California's new EEI curriculum, a wide-ranging set of K-12 instructional materials that teach science and social studies standards in the context of California's adopted environmental principles and concepts, while strengthening students’ reading and writing skills.

Jennifer Seydel, School Designer
Expeditionary Learning
Jenny will share planning templates that teachers can utilize to design lessons and units using environmental and social justice topics to teach state science, social studies, reading, writing, and math standards.

Registration is free! Registered participants will receive webinar login information via email prior to the webinar. Registered participants who complete the webinar are eligible for a special discounted registration rate for the National Green Schools Conference on February 27-29, 2012 in Denver, CO (http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org<http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/>).
The first 100 registered participants that log in and complete the webinar will be eligible for a webinar drawing to receive a complimentary registration to the Green Schools National Conference (www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org<http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/>), February 27-29, 2012.