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			<description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The Region 4 Bay Area CREEC Network serves: 
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$35&quot;&gt;Alameda and Contra Costa Counties&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$37&quot;&gt;Marin County&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$38&quot;&gt;Napa County&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$39&quot;&gt;San Francisco County&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$36&quot;&gt;San Mateo County&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$40&quot;&gt;Solano County&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bay Area CREEC is here to connect Bay Area teachers with the highest quality Environmental Education Resources available. Check out our &lt;a href=&quot;http://creec.edgateway.net/cs/creec4p/cal/19&quot;&gt;Calendar&lt;/a&gt; of Environmental Education events to link with professional development opportunities. To find specific programs and organizations that will help you, go to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://creec.edgateway.net/cs/creec4p/main?x-p=creec/cookie&quot;&gt;Resource Directory&lt;/a&gt; with over 400 programs or resources for Bay Area educators.&amp;nbsp; Information is updated regularly, so check it out!&amp;nbsp; View our quarterly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/discuss/edit/stories/storyReader$25&quot;&gt;Newsletter &lt;/a&gt;for workshops, events, grants and contests, announcements, a providers information, and Bay Area CREEC news.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Discuss local environmental education topics, find out about EE resources, check out job postings and receive updates from your CREEC Coordinators by joining our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edgateway.net/cs/ege/forum/cs_disc/473&quot;&gt;Discussion Group&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Here you can view past discussion topics or post a question or comment of your own.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Providers visit our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$49&quot;&gt;EE Evaluation Resources&lt;/a&gt; page&amp;nbsp; developed by the Bay Area&amp;nbsp; EE&amp;nbsp; Evaluation Learning Community.&amp;nbsp; Find resources for evaluating your EE program including evaluation professionals!&amp;nbsp; Also, we now have a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$56&quot;&gt;General EE Research&lt;/a&gt; page funded by Stopwaste.Org highlighting resources that demonstrate the benefits to EE including improvements to academic achievement!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$60&quot;&gt;East Bay EE Network&apos;s Provider Conference&lt;/a&gt; to learn about the East Bay EE Network&apos;s first Professional Development Conference last fall.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you can&apos;t find what you need, give us a call or a quick email, and we&apos;ll be happy to get right back to you!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sponsors:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/oee/&quot;&gt;California Department of Education Office of Environmental Education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp&quot;&gt;Stop Waste.Org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sff.org/&quot;&gt;San Francisco Foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://wwwStatic.kern.org/images/region4/purpfade001.gif&quot; height=&quot;5&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;purplerule: purple divider&lt;br&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;h1 style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot;&gt;Teachers:&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Professional Development Opportunity: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;
Join Save The Bay for their exciting Summer Teacher Workshop, Ecology In Education!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;June 30 - July 1, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;During
this workshop, you will be introduced to the watershed and San
Francisco Bay ecology through the Canoes In Sloughs and Community-based
Restoration programs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For additional information, click here:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$68&quot;&gt;Ecology in Education&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; To download the flyer, click here: &quot;Ecology in
Education Flyer&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Funding Opportunities:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;Explore local and statewide funding opportunities by clicking on the link to the left of the screen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin teachers: Watershed Project is currently offering a grant opportunity to teachers in these counties.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Recruitment Opportunity for Bay Area Teachers to Teach Climate Protection!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana, Helvetica, Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Sign up by May 30, 2008.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; Space is limited. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is recruiting 4th and 5th grade teachers to teach &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Protect Your Climate&lt;/span&gt; in the 2008-2009 school year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click here to download information about the program and curriculum: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wwwStatic.kern.org/gems/region4/RecruitmentFlyer.pdf&quot;&gt;Protect Your Climate Flyer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To sign-up, or for any questions, contact Annie Sexton at Strategic Energy Innovations:&lt;br&gt;Annie@seiinc.org and 415-507-2187. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://wwwStatic.kern.org/images/region4/purpfade001.gif&quot; height=&quot;5&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;purplerule: purple divider&lt;br&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;h1 style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 0, 204);&quot;&gt;Providers:&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creec.org/region4/stories/storyReader$34&quot;&gt;For Providers&lt;/a&gt; to learn about upcoming local EEI Curriculum Alignment Workshops.&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;
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