Share Your Environmental/Sustainability Education Success Story!

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Click on the image for an overview of outstanding regional EE programs.
Put your program on the map!
Recent additions:
• Solar panels in Seattle classroom
• CREST Farm-to-School Program
• Expeditionary Learning in Washington

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NEW! Lessons for Teaching in the Community and Environment

This new, regular feature by CLEARING “master teacher” Jim Martin explores how teachers can gain the confidence to go into the world outside of their classrooms for a substantial piece of their curricula.
Read series here
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INTERVIEWS WITH CONSERVATIONISTS

What is the link between conservation and environmental education? Chris Gertschen, founder and former director of the Sawtooth Science Institute, talks to the leaders of conservation in the west to get their perspectives on the issue.
Read the interviews here

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THE BEST OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Learn the secrets of successful environmental education programs! Read the perspectives and opinions of experienced teachers! Discover new ideas that can turn your classroom into an innovative and dynamic hub of place-based learning! The Best of Clearing is full of fresh ideas and old wisdom to help you create powerful learning experiences for your students.

Learn more and buy it today!
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ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY and the CLEARING COMPENDIUM

Attention: Clearing is currently compiling case studies that demonstrate what ideal school-based environmental literacy programs & activities can look like. These case studies will help teachers understand how to more effectively integrate environmental literacy into their classrooms, and will be featured in the 2011 Clearing Compendium published this fall!

Tell us about a model program that you think deserves recognition!

Read the 2010 edition here!
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Teaching Resource Spotlight

Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens

©2011 Veronica Gaylie. This book explores the urban school garden as a bridge between environmental action and thought. As a small-scale response to global issues around access to food and land, urban school gardens promote practical knowledge of farming as well as help renew cultural ideals of shared space and mutual support for the organic, built environment. This book examines the practice and culture of the urban school garden as a central symbol for environmental learning. Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens can be purchased at Peter Lang Publishing.
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Guest Writers: Voices of the PNW

Jessica Levine, Eckstein Middle School,
Seattle, Washington

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Gregory Smith,
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon

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Harmony Roll,
Taiga Teacher, Anchorage, Alaska

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Lindsay Huettman,
Wilderness Awareness School

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Megan McGinty, North Cascades Institute

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Jim Martin,
Retired Science Educator, Vancouver WA

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