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How the Framework was Developed
Since late 2005, a multistakeholder committee of EE organizations has consulted with over 180 EE organizations that have a stake in environmnetal education.
They were asked about barriers to their work and suggestions and ideas to build 'bridges' over these barriers. The resulting document - 'A Framework to Advance Environmental Education in Alberta' - was launched at a 24 May 2007 Summit on Environmental Education, which marked a community-wide collaborative effort to begin to deliver on the Frameworks' outcomes.
ACEE was founded to help deliver on key components of this Framework, and also serves as the Secretariat for this initiative.
How we Built the Framework
Since 2005 we have convened three consultation workshops, three regional Summits, and two provincial Summits on environmental education. Through this process we have successfully engaged over 440 individuals, representing 180 environmental education stakeholder organizations, in co-creating and helping deliver on the Framework to Advance Environmental Education in Alberta.
2006: In 2006, 290 individuals
participated in day-long Regional and Provincial Summits on EE. Summit participants suggested initiatives that would help
advance environmental education in Alberta; to capture these ideas, the Multi-stakeholder Steering Committee drafted a “Framework to Advance Environmental Education in Alberta,” a detailed plan specifying activities and outputs for each of several dozen outcomes that would help advance EE in Alberta.
March 2007: Face-to-face consultation with over 100 EE stakeholders across Alberta on draft of Framework.
April 2007: Release of final draft of Framework, based on input.
May 24, 2007: “Alberta Summit on Environmental Education - A Call to Action” (Delta Lodge at Kananaskis). After the release of the complete document the Framework to Advance Environmental Education in Alberta, over eighty stakeholders gave valuable input into how to implement the Framework - and 46 made an individual commitment towards implementation. Find out more about the Alberta Summit on Environmental Education - A Call to Action.
August 2007: Framework Implementation/Action Plan released.
2007, 2008... EE stakeholders work together to simultaneously deliver on the mission of their organizations - and help implement the Framework. ACEE will facilitate this collaborative work, and may help deliver on some elements of the Framework.