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Keystone Commitment Status: Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience

Keystone Commitment Status: Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience. Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup September 23, 2004. Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience. Watershed-based experiential education Applicable to all academic subjects

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Keystone Commitment Status: Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience

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  1. Keystone Commitment Status: Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup September 23, 2004

  2. Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience • Watershed-based experiential education • Applicable to all academic subjects • Aligns with jurisdictional education standards • Investigative or project oriented • Projects strive to improve environment • Sustained activity • Community focused Beginning with the class of 2005, provide a meaningful Bay or stream outdoor experience for every school student in the watershed before graduation from high school

  3. Value of Environmental Education • Increases student academic achievement in all subjects • Helps states reach goals of No Child Left Behind • Increases environmental stewardship • Helps CBP reach water quality goals Research Sources: State Education & Environment Roundtable National Environmental Education & Training Foundation Chesapeake Bay Foundation Maryland Association of Environmental & OutdoorEducators

  4. Accomplishments • Defined & began implementation of “meaningful watershed educational experience” • Incorporated watershed content into state mandated learning standards • Established NOAA B-WET grant program supporting project implementation • Held biennial Education Summits to discuss successes & barriers

  5. # Students: Class of ‘05 850,000 1,500,000 1,056,000 69,000 Funding Needs

  6. Tracking MWEE • “Every student” is ambitious, elusive goal • Goal is behavioral change in students • MWEE is one mechanism to reach goal • Quality is as important as quantity • Status Report available Spring 2005 • Numbers will be at school district level • Based on superintendent voluntary input A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. - Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  7. MWEE Challenges • Level of institutional commitment • Level of funding available • No specific state regulations • Tracking is resource intensive • Quality vs. Quantity

  8. PSC & EC Support Needed • Chief Executives re-endorse MWEE commitment: • CBP State Leadership • State Superintendents of Public Instruction • Consider some reliable state MWEE funding • Ensure staff understanding & participation, especially DOE staff • To optimize integration already in place • To ID & implement cross-jurisdictional needs • To promote, assess & track MWEE implementation

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