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!

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Professional Development Opportunities:

41st Annual NAAEE Conference Gaining Perspective: Seeing EE Through Different Lenses
October 10-13, 2012, in Oakland
Registration opens June 1st
The strands for 2012 are:
•    Conservation Education—Achieving conservation goals through innovative education, communication, social marketing, and civic tourism strategies
•    Food and Agriculture—Educating for informed participation in a farm-to-table food system, connecting food, agriculture, personal health, and technological practices and innovations with the environment
•    Green Schools—Exemplary practices that enhance student achievement, conserve natural resources, and reduce the operating costs and environmental footprints of schools
•    Marine, Bay, and Freshwater Education—Using the ocean and other aquatic environments as an integrating context for teaching multiple concepts and across disciplines
•    Networking and Leadership Development—Strategic approaches to building our capacity to promote, support, and advance high quality environmental education programs on local, state/provincial, and national levels
•    Socioecological Education—Exploring the vital connections between societal, cultural, and environmental concerns; integrating education and activism 

Go To http://www.naaee.net/conference/
Proposal Reviewers Needed

We ask each reviewer to take a minimum of only five proposals, so the time commitment is less than an hour. Reviewers have about three weeks to finish their task (approximate dates are May 5-May 25).
It's not a hard job, and it can be fun to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the EE activities going on around the country. You get to choose the strand(s) you want to participate in, select the number (five minimum) of proposals (five minimum) you're willing to accept, and you can review proposals even if you have submitted a proposal of your own. (However, you can't, of course, review your own proposal.)
If you're able to assist us with even five proposals, please follow the instructions below for signing up (soon). It would be so very helpful, and I would appreciate greatly

  1. Log in to the NAAEE site (www.naaee.net <http://www.naaee.net/> ). If you already have an account with NAAEE, login with your email address and password (in the upper right corner of the page). If you don't have a profile in the system, create a new account. If you're not sure, please check with us by emailing loginhelp@naaee.net or calling 202-570-2671 to avoid creating a duplicate profile. (Over the weekend, please contact me directly: 2012proposals@naaee.net if you need assistance.)
  2. Once you're signed in, return to the NAAEE home page. Hover over “Conference” in the light blue navigation bar  at the top of the page. In the drop-down menu that appears, click on “Submit/Edit Proposals <http://www.naaee.net/conference/presenters#_msocom_1> .” This will take you to the home page for the online conference system.
  3. Scroll down and click on "Volunteer to be a Reviewer." Then, select the strand you prefer and indicate how many proposals you're willing to review.
  4. Once you do that, you can log out.  
Cal Alive! Presents the Eureka Series

Francisco Bay Area Institute July 9–13. Angel Island State Park, Crab Cove and other Regional Parks. Registration Fee: $170. As we make our way towards the coast, we will focus on the Bay Area’s unique estuary and tidepools as well as look at how sea level rise, salinity, and El Niño can affect this system. Participants will also get out onto the water and perform team field investigations.

Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Institute November 2–4. Big Break Regional Shoreline. Registration Fee: $75. We will visit the California Delta both on land and on water to see the spectacular flora and fauna that inhabit this unique region. Participants will learn how migration, fisheries, and orchards are being affected by climate change and the state’s use of water.

Pacific Coast Institute Finale October 26–28 & November 9-11, NatureBridge at Golden Gate National Recreation Area (formerly Headlands Institute) (Room and Board Included).
Registration Fee: $300. We will conclude our transect of the state on the coast where we will continue the exploration of the science of climate change and also study marine ecology, marine chemistry, tide pools, local dairy and oyster farms, and climate change’s impact on oceans and harbor seals. To register for the institutes, visit http://eurekaseries.org/main/node/135

High School Sustainability Certificate, with an Energy Emphasis

Strategic Energy Innovations is sponsoring an energy education workshop for high school teachers on June 26th at the Pacific Energy Center in SF. Teachers attending the workshop will receive a step-by-step training on how to implement the 16-lesson course in their classroom. $125 (early bird) registration includes training, lunch, & curriculum.  Topics include: Climate change, Fundamentals of energy, Performing classroom audits, Solar site assessment, and Green career paths for youth. 1 CEU credit is available from Dominican University.  $125 includes lunch, training, and curriculum download.  Scholarships are available for teachers in the North Bay. Contact Josette Molloy at 415.473.3317 to see if you qualify.  Register at: http://shop.seiinc.org/training/   Call Sandy Wallenstein at 415.507.2183 for more info.








 









 



 












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