Bay Area
Serving Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Solano Counties
Welcome to the Bay Area CREEC Network
The Region 4 Bay Area CREEC Network serves:
Bay Area CREEC is here to connect Bay Area teachers with the highest quality Environmental Education Resources available. Check out our Calendar of Environmental Education events to link with professional development opportunities. To find specific programs and organizations that will help you, go to our Resource Directory with over 400 programs or resources for Bay Area educators. Information is updated regularly, so check it out! View our quarterly Newsletter for workshops, events, grants and contests, announcements, a providers information, and Bay Area CREEC news.
Discuss local environmental education topics, find out about EE resources, check out job postings and receive updates from your CREEC Coordinators by joining our Bay Area CREEC EE Discussion Group. Here you can view past discussion topics or post a question or comment of your own.
Providers visit our EE Evaluation Resources page developed by the Bay Area EE Evaluation Learning Community. Find resources for evaluating your EE program including evaluation professionals! Also, we now have a new General EE Research page funded by Stopwaste.Org highlighting resources that demonstrate the benefits to EE including improvements to academic achievement! If you can't find what you need, give us a call or a quick email, and we'll be happy to get right back to you!
Sponsors:
California Department of Education Office of Environmental Education
Stop Waste.Org
San Francisco Foundation 
Teachers:Professional Development Opportunities: The Return of Headlands Institute's Summer Institute on Environmental Education, part of our SEED (Science and Environmental Education Development) Program for Teachers. This week-long professional development opportunity for teachers (July 20-24 and August 3-7) provides engaging, transferable curriculum and aims to help teachers implement hands-on, environmental education in their classrooms. The $225 tuition (scholarships are available) includes 5 days of instruction, curriculum binder, field trips, and lodging and meals in the beautiful Marin Headlands. More information is available at: http://yni.org/hi/adulted or contact Amoreena Treff at atreff@naturebridge.org
Providers:
Environmental Education Programs and the California State Standards: A Free Workshop for EE Providers
Tuesday June 2, 1-4 at Loma Vista Farm in Vallejo http://www.lomavistafarm.org/volunteer.html
On the Agenda:
• Learn about the California State Standards and how they influence curriculum and programming
• Learn how to determine if existing activities correlate to the standards
• Learn how to plan new and adapt existing activities to better achieve the standards
• Tour the Loma Vista Farm
Please register by asap to bacreec@comcast.net or call Laura Powell 707-658-1805 (include your name, organization, and phone number) Sponsored by Bay Area CREEC Network. Workshop Presenter Lori Mann
Funding Opportunities:Explore local and statewide funding opportunities by clicking on the link to the left of the screen.
Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin teachers: Watershed Project is currently offering a grant opportunity to teachers in these counties.
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