Michigan Alliance for Environmental & Outdoor Education

Our Mission: To promote environmental literacy through education.

Environmental Literacy: Possessing the basic ecological awareness, understanding and skill to have the ability to make informed decisions and to choose actions that lead to the least amount of detrimental effects on the environment.

Or as defined by the Environmental Education Task force,

An environmentally literate person has:

1. An awareness and concern and concern about the total environment.
2. Possess the knowledge necessary to understand both the environmental as a system and the role humans play as a component of the system.
3. Perceives how the development of human technology has the ability to degrade and/or protect the environment.
4. Applies their awareness and knowledge in assessing the environmental consequences of their actions, individually and collectively, before and after actions are taken, and resolves problems caused their own actions or the actions of others.

MAEOE Goals and Objectives:

1. To provide environmental and outdoor education experience for educators
1. Annual statewide conference
2. Regional workshops
3. Project wild workshops
4. Presentation displays at related conferences
2. To serve as an enabling organization to coordinate outdoor and environmental education efforts and resources in the state of Michigan.
1. Create, modify, critique, support, and/or select materials that promote environmental literacy.
2. Support K-12 outdoor and environmental education programming.
3. Seek/assist/support funding for outdoor and environmental education.
4. Assist in monitoring/evaluating of environmental and outdoor education efforts in Michigan.
5. Publication of a quarterly newsletter.
3. To provide opportunities for personal interaction among educators.
1. Workshops/conferences
2. Board work retreats
3. Network of resources

• Within MAEOE
• Other orgs
• Newsletter