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Welcome to the Bay Area CREEC Network

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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 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!

Visit East Bay EE Network's Provider Conference to learn about the East Bay EE Network's first Professional Development Conference last fall.

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

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Teachers:

Professional Development Opportunities:

PEAK Student Energy Actions

August 6, August 20, OR August 23, 2008; 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.  (Please sign up two weeks before your preferred training date.)

Available to all 4 - 7th grade teachers in SF/Bay Area.

PEAK is a standards-based educational program that teaches the science of energy while teaching the ethic of smart energy management that students can apply in homes, schools, and the community. The PEAK program provides professional development for educators, all the supplies you need for hands-on activities, an easy to follow guidebook, facility audits and improvements, and fundraising opportunities for your school – all at no cost to you! The best part is since PEAK is standards-based, it easily fits into your regular curriculum so that you don’t have to make extra time in your day!

Lunch will be provided! A $100 stipend, a Teacher Resource Guidebook and a toolkit will be given to teachers participating in the PEAK program.

Interested? PEAK Teacher Orientation and Training sessions will be held this summer. Sign up now! To reserve a spot or to just learn more about the program, please email Nikole at nreaksecker@energycoalition.org or call (415) 973-2498.

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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