2010 Leadership Clinic Participants
ACEE believes in evaluating the success of our work! Below we summarize progress achieved by seven clinic teams a full 18 months after they attended the event.
The following groups attended the Clinic in November 2010.
| Organization | Progress after 10 months | Progress after 18 months – an update |
| Canadian Rockies Public Schools – Goal: We will create policy and a shared vision of EE for our entire division, and provide teachers with the support they need to integrate environmental education into their teaching practice. | This team has formed APECS (Actively Promoting Environmental and Civic Stewardship), and has dramatically delivered on its goal. The School Board created a divisional Environmental Stewardship committee with representation from all 6 schools, and meetings have already taken place to roll out the process to teachers. APECS has engaged both Katimavik students and the Board’s Director of Community Engagement to help coordinate meetings and maintain momentum. See the ACEE blog for more. | This team has met twice with Rocky View Schools to share best practices. They have expanded their APECS membership to include Senior Administration, Principals, Teachers and Community Partners. They have created an on-line community forum for sharing and celebrating projects, community resources and key contacts while facilitating ongoing discussions within the community.
APECS has a blog where they share ideas and programs. ACEE also wrote a blog about APECS progress. |
| John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights – Goal: will help over 600 youth to focus on their environmental stewardship role as ‘Keepers of the Water’ at the 2011 Global Youth Alliance. |
Things are further ahead than we expected. The GYA program redesign is now complete, and the social network site for youth leaders is complete. We have successfully partnered with a several groups (APIRG, ICChange and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights) to create the event. | This group has completed every aspect of their program reporting and they will be redelivering one aspect of the program again this upcoming summer. See their full report. |
| Lord Beaverbrook High School – Goal: build a culture of environmental stewardship throughout the school, leveraging a new ‘ living wall’ within the school. | With the support of the Principal, ‘The Living Wall’ will be unveiled in June. The project is moving ahead thanks to the help of a private consultant and the schools environmental club, which is creating a new website to increase awareness about ‘The Living Wall’ and environmental stewardship. | The Living Wall was unveiled in February and it is a great success! |
| Rocky View Schools – Goal: develop and implement a Division-wide plan to support all 35 schools in the delivery on Goal 3 of the its Three Year Plan: “Learners are civic, social and environmental stewards.” | They have brought ‘stewardship’ into the conversation at an unprecedented level: specifically, at the administration (school-based and central) levels of Rocky View, whose new Plan is expected to weave in a strong environmental and stewardship components. A new dimension to our project is a movement into social networking – such as our blog describing global stewardship at Glenbow Elementary school. |
Continuing to deliver on Goal 3 of the Three Year Plan: “Learners are civic, social and environmental stewards”. This group has contributed to and welcomed active community participation in their stewardship efforts expanding to social networking which includes the continuation of writing on their blog.
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| Bellerose Composite High School – Goal: increase awareness and environmental stewardship in the community through various initiatives and awareness campaigns, including community gardens. | The Eco Club ran a project to recycle old cellular phones and then donated working units to the local women’s shelter. This teams’ student received a grant to plant 100 trees this Spring in St. Albert. Edible herb gardens will be planted this spring in existing school planters to increase awareness about community gardens and to educate students/teachers/visitors and parents about the possibilities for other gardens. | The delivery of their plan was a great success! The planting of the trees was 100% accomplished. They are still working on their community garden and have secured a grant from city to continue planting. They have also received funds to build a living wall ‘wooly planters’ in their common area of the school. |
| WEES – Waskasoo Environmental Education Society. Goal: Develop a framework and implementation plan to create environmental action projects for school groups, public participants, corporate supporters and other stakeholders. | The have created an Action Project Framework, a solid and strategic plan for the expansion of environmental education in the Red Deer area; partner schools, the City Recreation department and the community at large are engaged and excited! | Update still to come. |
| Royal Alberta Museum – Goal: Develop a series of new programs that will encourage responsible environmental behaviour among its 250,000 annual visitors. | The team has established a core team and an advisory team who are actively redesigning programs to insert the action component. During the week long Museum School, the Museum encourages themes centered around environmental topics and asks teachers to facilitate and encourage student action once they are back in the classroom. Their gallery of Aboriginal culture now emphasizes the close ties First Nations groups have had with the environment for thousands of years and the importance of understanding the natural world. | Update still to come. |
| Kananaskis Country Education – Goal: develop a framework and implementation plan to create environmental action projects for school groups, public participants, corporate supporters and other stakeholders. | Three key education meetings of diverse stakeholders within Kananaskis Country Education have taken place. These conversations and collaborative efforts are proving to be the key to being more effective and addressing their goa | This is what has been created:
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| Alberta Parks and Tourism – Goal: develop a plan to create mutually beneficial and sustainable partnerships between Alberta Parks and community partners, to improve their ability to foster environmental stewardship both within and outside of protected areas. | The Team has obtained strong top-down support within the department, and is working to create and distribute a toolkit on sustainable partnerships to be shared throughout the Province. | Unfortunately many factors have come into play and the project they were working on has been pushed to the bottom of the provincial priority list. At this point it is not worth the extreme effort it would take to get it back on track. No fault of the leadership clinic process just circumstance. |
THANKS to Cenovus Energy, who is the sole corporate sponsor of this event.
- Photos
- 2010 Agenda
- Powerpoint Presentations
- Websites
- Documents and background
- OAT – Organizational Assessment Tool Resources
- Inclusion and Collaboration Workshop
- Testimonials from participants
Program Planning and Evaluation
The Big Picture of Environmental Education in North America
How to Plan your Program and Evaluate Success
EETAP – Organizational Assessment Tool (OAT)
EETAP Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines
My Environmental Education Evaluation Resource Assistant (MEERA)
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Environmental Education On-line Courses
NAAEE Evaluation Your Environmental Education Programs – A Workbook for Practitioners
Backgrounder on Youth Engagement – Emerald Foundation
Leap Into Action Simple Steps to Environmental Action Grade 4-8
Educating for Action – Green Teacher Article
Measuring the Success for Environmental Education
Barriers to Global and Environmental Education
Nurturing Voices Worksho Summary
New On-Line MSc in Environmental Education
On-line Environmental Education Courses
OAT – Organizational Assessment Tool Resources
OAT Organizational Assessment – A Tool for Building Capacity for EE Organizations
OAT Individual Assessment Question Response Sheet
Inclusion and Collaboration Workshop
Diversity Education for Change: A Guide to Planning and Management
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Change – Community Based Social Marketing
Testimonials from Participants
- The work done to organize was exceptional … thanks Julia! Gareth and Nan’s straight forward, positive energy is second to none! All people who assisted were sincerely appreciated. You added a huge amount. Thank you!
Pat Worthington, Director of HR at Rockyview Schools, and ACEE Board member
- The information and strategies from the clinic will be instrumental in providing vision and direction for environmental education both at my school and divisional levels. I thoroughly enjoyed networking with the many talented and diverse individuals and groups that participated in the clinic. Thank you for this outstanding opportunity.
Deb Rougeau-Bell, Principal, Glenbow Elementary School
- This clinic was an excellent opportunity to work closely with our team to refine theory into action. This process was supported by theory and mentoring.
Doug Marvin, Head of Education and Outreach, Alberta Parks
- I totally appreciated having the ‘time’ to work through our objective with my team… Having excellent facilitators was a huge help in getting us to our action plan! We all feel like our team has really come together with a common vision and goal!
Daniella Rubeling, Kananaskis Country
- The amount of work we got done was incredible. We never have time to get big picture, important project planning finished.
- I really enjoyed the opportunity to network and the energizing conversations that evolved. I was also really impressed with the overalL format of the clinic (shifting from predominantly info sessions to predominantly teamwork sessions) that supported the teams’ projects so well.
Dorothy Kelker, Royal Alberta Museum
- Time, tools and resources infused with dynamic co-participants were a real gift. I have no doubt that our program will help “move learners to action” after participating in the leadership clinic!
Vicki Perkins, Kananaskis Country
- Every day I thought “wow! We got so much done, I could go home now and be happy” and then “How can we possibly accomplish more?” but then you would give us more tools and we would get so much more done!
- Really appreciated the opportunity to meet with people outside my area and share/learn strategies to improve delivery of material in class. An amazing experience….and we have two wonderful projects to bring to students/staff/community.
Yvonne Jones, Bellerose Composite High School
