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Session Notes
The notes taken at each session. In MS Word format.
Friday, January 28
9:00 - 10:15 am
- Database challenges; what works, what doesn't
- High school programs
- Foodshed: sustainable food systems
- Leadership lessons learned
- Climate change: classes on current events
10:30 - 11:45 am
- Curriculum, nature vs issues; what are you doing now? Balancing what we think is right vs what is asked for
- Programs for undergraduate students
- Advocacy - moving the bar in DC; what national laws will/could help our work
- Supervising Millennials; managing the next generation of staff
- How to help teachers, overcome the challenges they are facing
1:15 - 2:30 pm
- Closed vs Open Campus; public v private, open trails or locked gates!
- Impact study
- Utilizing Interns
- Business models
- Farm & Garden; new curriculum? established curriculum?
2:45 - 4:00 pm
- Naturalist certification; purpose, plan & results
- Marketing strategies
- Role of Technology
- Environmental literacy plans for states: creating one
- Staff burnout, compensation, pay and human relations: attracting quality applicants & meeting their expectations
Saturday
9:00 - 10:15 am
- Partnerships and donors
- Extended Youth Programs: multi-week programs
- Staff Development
- Magic of residential programs
- Citizen science projects and programs
10:30 - 11:45 am
- Recruiting underprivileged and overcoming cultural barriers
- Social media
- Future of Res Ed
- Multi year programs: because one week isn't enough
- Management and staff structure; changing organizational structure, what does yours look like, does it work?
