* * * MEDIA ADVISORY * * *
Date: April 27, 2006 Editorial contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
Summit contacts: Cindi Smith-Walters, 898-5449
Karen Hargrove, 898-2660
Cynthia Allen, 898-8133
(MURFREESBORO) — Media invited to cover the first ever Tennessee Environmental Education Summit with the Tennessee Environmental Association today and Friday.
State and out-of-state experts will discuss the environment and its role in education, the future direction of environmental education in Tennessee, common concerns and more.
When: today (1 until 5:30 p.m.) and Friday (9 a.m. until 1 p.m.)
Where: Fairview Building, 820 Fairview Ave., just off Greenland Drive.
Principle speakers today:
Paul Sloan, deputy commissioner, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, keynote address at 2 p.m.;
Tami Coleman, Conservation Education Now for Tennessee Students, “National EE Curriculum Projects in Tennessee/Recruitment and Training of Workshop Facilitators,” 2:45 p.m.;
Jennifer Arnold and Ken Voorhis, Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont, 3:15 p.m.;
Linda Jordan, Tennessee Department of Education, “No Child Left Behind Implications,” 4:15 p.m.;
Kim Bailey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, “Resource Sharing/Southeastern EE Web site Project,” 5 p.m.
Principle speakers Friday, April 28:
Vera Vollbrecht, Warner Park Nature Center, and Ken Voorhis, GDNR, “Non-formal EE Opportunities and Challenges,” 9:15 a.m.;
Jane Eller, Kentucky Environmental Education Council, “What’s Going on in Other States: Certification,” 10:45 a.m.;
Kim Bailey, GDNR, “What’s Going On in Other States” and “What’s Going On at the National Level,” 11:30 a.m.
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Date: April 27, 2006 Editorial contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
Summit contacts: Cindi Smith-Walters, 898-5449
Karen Hargrove, 898-2660
Cynthia Allen, 898-8133
(MURFREESBORO) — Media invited to cover the first ever Tennessee Environmental Education Summit with the Tennessee Environmental Association today and Friday.
State and out-of-state experts will discuss the environment and its role in education, the future direction of environmental education in Tennessee, common concerns and more.
When: today (1 until 5:30 p.m.) and Friday (9 a.m. until 1 p.m.)
Where: Fairview Building, 820 Fairview Ave., just off Greenland Drive.
Principle speakers today:
Paul Sloan, deputy commissioner, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, keynote address at 2 p.m.;
Tami Coleman, Conservation Education Now for Tennessee Students, “National EE Curriculum Projects in Tennessee/Recruitment and Training of Workshop Facilitators,” 2:45 p.m.;
Jennifer Arnold and Ken Voorhis, Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont, 3:15 p.m.;
Linda Jordan, Tennessee Department of Education, “No Child Left Behind Implications,” 4:15 p.m.;
Kim Bailey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, “Resource Sharing/Southeastern EE Web site Project,” 5 p.m.
Principle speakers Friday, April 28:
Vera Vollbrecht, Warner Park Nature Center, and Ken Voorhis, GDNR, “Non-formal EE Opportunities and Challenges,” 9:15 a.m.;
Jane Eller, Kentucky Environmental Education Council, “What’s Going on in Other States: Certification,” 10:45 a.m.;
Kim Bailey, GDNR, “What’s Going On in Other States” and “What’s Going On at the National Level,” 11:30 a.m.
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