Midwest Environmental Education Conference

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Midwest Environmental Education Conference

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12:30pm CDT

Honoring Indigenous Knowledge through Place, Nature, and Identity Pines (Capacity 35)Catherine Koons-Hubbard (she/er) • Casie Wise Reawakening kinship and reciprocity Hearth (Capacity 20)Colleen Robinson Smart, Streamlined Systems for Success: Tech Tips for Your Organization Salon A (Capacity 108)Victoria Rydberg-Nania • Skylar L. Primm (he/him)

1:00pm CDT

Integral Ecology in Practice on FSPA land on St. Joseph Ridge Meet at LocationSiena Muehlfeld • Beth Piggush • Meredith Hink Midwest Fisheries Center Meet at LocationCristina Stahl Outdoors Access 4 All Meet at LocationKasi Greenwood • Rachael Lewandowski Sarette • Monica Spaeni Reclaimed Nature Meet at LocationCindy Blobaum Summit Environmental School Meet at LocationOscar UrIbe Sustainability at Western: U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Honoree Meet at LocationCasey Meehan

10:45am CDT

Everything is Connected: Hands-on Human Ecology for Young Learners Rowe (Capacity 72)Heidi Masters Food Frolic Academy Pines (Capacity 35)Tamra Dickinson • Vicki Lopez-Kaley Taking Learning Outdoors in the K/1 Classroom Eagle's Lookout (Capacity 45)Karen Anderson • Wendy Fechner • Deb Ofte Climate Change - Development of a Statewide Infrastructure Salon B/CKimberly Talarico (she/her/hers) • Samara Hamzé • Gina Smith • Victoria Rydberg-Nania Disentangling Environmental Education from Colonization Salon B/CDeanna Erickson • Hannah Smith Finding the Stories in Nature Salon B/CEmily Stone Letting the Land heal and connect: an urban mutual aid story Salon B/CZaynab Baalbaki Starts with us. Relationships, unlearning and learning together Salon B/CBeth Piggush Strengthening Connections to Place Salon B/CEmily Jones The Journey of Restoring and Revitalizing an Environmental Education Program Post-Covid. Salon B/COscar UrIbe

1:00pm CDT

Collective Leadership: Supporting Personal Power to Sustain Community Thriving Pines (Capacity 35)Emma Koeppel • Betty Ballweg • Lynn Parkhurst Nature Explorers: Effects of an interpretive day camp on attitudes Salon B (Capacity 117)Griffin Bray • Becca Franzen Creative Caring for Nature Through Art Badger's Den (Capacity 45)Kristin Gjerdset Increasing Accessibility through Transformational Thinking Salon C (Capacity 117)Kasi Greenwood • Rachael Lewandowski Sarette • Monica Spaeni Tracking: an introduction to math and physics Hearth (Capacity 20)Clayton Sattler

3:00pm CDT

Building Nature Connections & Community Salon A (Capacity 108)Emily Brown City of Superior Environmental Services Division Water Quality Programming Salon C (Capacity 117)Megan Högfeldt • Lisa DeGuire • Ida Sampson Nature Poetry Is For Everyone! Timberlands (Capacity 50)Nicole Filizetti iPlan: Creating Localized Land-Use Simulations for Place-Based Learning Hearth (Capacity 20)Andrew Ruis

3:30pm CDT

Circular Intergenerational Connections Rowe (Capacity 72)Beth Piggush Food Sovereignty & Indigenous Wisdom Salon A (Capacity 108)Heather Gayton How to be a Badge-r Timberlands (Capacity 50)Beth Schaefer Using Treasure Finders with All Ages Salon C (Capacity 117)Emily Stone

4:00pm CDT

Farm to Classroom: Embedded Agriculture in Culinary Arts Eagle's Lookout (Capacity 45)Mollie Haubenschild • Erica Yoss Growing Where You Are Planted: Place-Based Learning with Trees Salon C (Capacity 117)Olivia Witthun • Jonathan Ismail The Journey of Restoring and Revitalizing an Environmental Education Program Post-Covid. Hearth (Capacity 20)Oscar UrIbe What do you Notice? How Phenology Based Poetry Nurtures Nature-based, Inquiry-based Early Childhood Literacy Experiences While Expanding Children's Sense of Place Rowe (Capacity 72)Jade Ratliff Cashman

9:00am CDT

What's new in the world of EE research? Badger's Den (Capacity 45)Becca Franzen • Yue Li • Kendra Liddicoat Changing Climate, Changing Cultures: Integrating TEK into Climate Education Hearth (Capacity 20)Victoria Rydberg-Nania • Cathy Techtmann Decolonization: What is it? Pines (Capacity 35)Tommy Mackey Playgrounds not Battlegrounds: Using playfulness to engage in Serious Business Salon C (Capacity 117)Casey Meehan Tree Inventories to Connect with Community Forests Timberlands (Capacity 50)Jonathan Ismail • Dan Buckler

10:00am CDT

A day in the life: what do Gen Z-ers need and look for? Eagle's Lookout (Capacity 45)EENA • Becca Franzen The Stories We Tell Badger's Den (Capacity 45)Jane Weber

1:30pm CDT

EE in Action: Voices for Environmental Justice Salon A/B/CTommy Mackey • Dr. Lemir Teron • Robert Peterson

3:10pm CDT

Close Encounters with Small Wonders Badger's Den (Capacity 45)Jill Brigham • Kendra Liddicoat Diversity in Conservation: Creating More Diverse Career Pathways and a DEIJ Community of Practice Pines (Capacity 35)Lindsey Taylor • Cait Williamson Engaging Students in Lifelong Outdoor Adventure Activities in Physical Education Program Salon A (Capacity 108)Nick Okeefe • Oscar UrIbe Green House: Play a game about climate change Timberlands (Capacity 50)Casey Meehan Innovative Approaches to Great Lakes Literacy and Marine Debris Prevention Salon C (Capacity 117)Ginny Carlton Nature-Based Early Childhood Education: Using Seasons as a Navigation Tool for Open-Ended Learning Hearth (Capacity 20)Matt Flower • Alex LaBonte

3:30pm CDT

Using photography to enhance nature connectedness Badger's Den (Capacity 45)Yue Li • Kendra Liddicoat • Becca Franzen