1. PRESENTATION TO CBP Education workgroup December 14, 2016
WORKGROUP REFRESHER
PRESENTATION TO CBP Education workgroup
December 14, 2016

3. Environmental Literacy Goal
GOAL: Enable students in the region to graduate with the knowledge and skills to act responsibly to protect and restore their local watershed
OUTCOMES:
Student MWEEs
Sustainable Schools
Policy & Metrics
As a reminder, the Agreement includes an Environmental Literacy Goal that commits us to enabling students to graduate with the knowledge and skills to protect and restore their local watershed.
There are three associated outcomes for
Providing student Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences – affectionately called MWEEs – in each elementary, middle, and high school
Increasing the number of Sustainable Schools and ensuring that students are actively engaged in those efforts
Establishing supportive policies, programs, and metrics at all levels to advance this work

4. Knowledge-building through inquiry Authentic applications
MWEE ‘How To’ Guide
Academic connections
Knowledge-building through inquiry
Authentic applications

5. Metrics and Indicators
One graph for each school level
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6. Bay Backpack

7. Sustainable Schools

8. Leadership Summit Held April 20, 2016 at the Phillip Merrill Center
Purpose:
To explore how states can assist school systems in creating and sustaining high-quality EL programs as part of ongoing education reform and to meet Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement commitments.
To examine opportunities provided by the environmental education provisions of the recently enacted Every Student Succeeds Act to support state and local environmental literacy programming.
As has been recognized by the CBP since way back in 1998 when they issued the first Education Directive, this work faces a significant limitation in that it is largely led by state and local education agencies who are not formally engaged in the CBP.
To address this, the Environmental Literacy Leadership Summit was held on April 20, 2016 at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation HQ in Annapolis, MD. The purpose of the meeting was…
To explore how states can assist school systems in creating and sustaining high-quality EL programs as part of ongoing education reform and to meet Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement commitments.
To examine opportunities provided by the environmental education provisions of the recently enacted Every Student Succeeds Act to support state and local environmental literacy programming.

9. Attendees included state superintendents of education and secretaries of natural resources and their staff along with leaders from school systems, federal agencies, and non-profit partners.
Congressman Sarbanes kicked off the day – in his home district. As you may know, he was responsible for drafting and introducing the No Child Left Inside Act, which set the stage for the inclusion of environmental education into the new Every Student Succeeds Act (that replaces No Child Left Behind), which I will discuss a bit later.
The day included presentations from practitioners and leaders about best practices in systemic environmental, an opportunity to interact with high school students from Howard County who were participating in the field experience portion of their MWEE, and discussions about Every Student Succeeds Act and state priorities for environmental literacy.
You can click through the next couple of slides to see pictures from the day.

10. Attendees included state superintendents of education and secretaries of natural resources and their staff along with leaders from school systems, federal agencies, and non-profit partners.
Congressman Sarbanes kicked off the day – in his home district. As you may know, he was responsible for drafting and introducing the No Child Left Inside Act, which set the stage for the inclusion of environmental education into the new Every Student Succeeds Act (that replaces No Child Left Behind), which I will discuss a bit later.
The day included presentations from practitioners and leaders about best practices in systemic environmental, an opportunity to interact with high school students from Howard County who were participating in the field experience portion of their MWEE, and discussions about Every Student Succeeds Act and state priorities for environmental literacy.

11. Attendees included state superintendents of education and secretaries of natural resources and their staff along with leaders from school systems, federal agencies, and non-profit partners.
Congressman Sarbanes kicked off the day – in his home district. As you may know, he was responsible for drafting and introducing the No Child Left Inside Act, which set the stage for the inclusion of environmental education into the new Every Student Succeeds Act (that replaces No Child Left Behind), which I will discuss a bit later.
The day included presentations from practitioners and leaders about best practices in systemic environmental, an opportunity to interact with high school students from Howard County who were participating in the field experience portion of their MWEE, and discussions about Every Student Succeeds Act and state priorities for environmental literacy.

12. Attendees included state superintendents of education and secretaries of natural resources and their staff along with leaders from school systems, federal agencies, and non-profit partners.
Congressman Sarbanes kicked off the day – in his home district. As you may know, he was responsible for drafting and introducing the No Child Left Inside Act, which set the stage for the inclusion of environmental education into the new Every Student Succeeds Act (that replaces No Child Left Behind), which I will discuss a bit later.
The day included presentations from practitioners and leaders about best practices in systemic environmental education, an opportunity to interact with high school students from Howard County who were participating in the field experience portion of their MWEE, and discussions about Every Student Succeeds Act and state priorities for environmental literacy.

13. Summit Take Aways
Each state is committed to advancing EL in a way that takes advantage of state specific priorities and respects the unique educational system of that state.
US Department of Education has opportunities to advance this work in the new Every Student Succeed Act and would like to work with partners to explore these opportunities.
Call for CBP to convene these leaders regularly to learn from each other and hold each other accountable.
The meeting was highly successful in opening up dialogue within states and across the region – and even getting some new staff hired at the state level to move this work forward.
A few take aways from the day include…
Each state is committed to advancing EL in a way that takes advantage of state specific priorities and respects the unique educational system of that state.
US Department of Education has opportunities to advance this work in the new Every Student Succeed Act and would like to work with partners to explore these opportunities.
Call for CBP to convene these leaders regularly to learn from each other and hold each other accountable.

14. Every Student Succeeds Act
Signed December 10, 2015
Replaces No Child Left Behind
Title IV includes key language for environmental education
Passed through both Chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support
So what exactly is ESSA and what are the opportunities to advance the Environmental Literacy work of the Chesapeake Bay Program?
On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA into law, reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (formerly known as No Child Left Behind). Thanks in large part to many years of advocacy and outreach on the part of numerous partners (including our very own Charlie Stek) ESSA includes language making environmental education eligible for federal education funding for the first time. The Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, passing the House with a vote of and the Senate with a vote of
At the Summit we heard from Monique Chism, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Policy and Programs, U.S. Department of Education who spoke to us about ESSA.