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  For more information
  about Education for
  Environment and
  Sustainability:

  Gilda Wheeler
  360.725.4976
  gilda.wheeler@k12.wa.us
 

Education for Environment and Sustainability

Overview

The OSPI Education for Environment and Sustainability program supports academic success and life-long learning, and develops a responsible citizenry capable of applying knowledge of ecological, economic, and socio-cultural systems to meet current and future needs.

 

Connecting Environment, Economy, and Society/Culture


What's New

National Sustainability Education Week
November 9-11, 2009

WA State Proclamation (PDF)

Visit www.uspartnership.org for resources.

EES Program Priorities

  • Curriculum Alignment and Integration
  • Pre-service Education and Professional Development
  • Resources in Support of Graduation Requirements
  • Research-based Assessment
  • Research and Policy Development
  • Grant Programs
  • Community Engagement and Collaboration

FINAL Washington K-12 Integrated Environmental and Sustainability Education Learning Standards - 2009 (PDF)
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction brought a committee together to develop K-12 Integrated Environmental and Sustainability Education Learning Standards. The final approved standards are now available. For more information please contact Gilda Wheeler, Program Supervisor for Environmental and Sustainability Education at gilda.wheeler@k12.wa.us

OSPI ESE Programs and Initiatives 2009 (PDF)

Environmental and Sustainability Education Teacher Survey
OSPI in partnership with the Environmental Education Association of Washington (EEAW) conducted a survey of Washington state teachers on the use and practices of environmental education (EE) and education for sustainability (EfS) in K-12 schools. Read highlights in this draft survey report.

Report EES - A Vision for the Future
The report Contextual Learning: Education for Sustainability (Word) focuses on the three domains of education for sustainability: environmental, economic, and social systems.

 

Statutory Authority for Environmental and Sustainability Education

In 1990, the State Board of Education created a rule defining environmental education as part of Basic Education and mandating its instruction in public school at all grade levels in all subject matters.

"WAC 180-50-115 Mandatory areas of study in the common school.
Subsection (6) Pursuant to RCW 28A.230.020 instruction about conservation, natural resources, and the environment shall be provided at all grade levels in an interdisciplinary manner through science, the social studies, the humanities, and other appropriate areas with an emphasis on solving the problems of human adaptation to the environment."

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