Description
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training Program is a competitive grant program that supports existing, high-quality environmental education programs and fosters the growth of innovative programs. The program aims to build capacity for statewide or multi-state K-12 environmental literacy initiatives, supporting the policies and structures necessary to advance environmental literacy at a statewide level. Successful projects will advance the environmental literacy goal of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and the NOAA Education Strategic Plan.
Some key aspects of the program include:
• Developing a state-level environmental literacy strategy, plan, or framework
• Creating a state-level environmental literacy advisory group to inform decision makers
• Expanding upon the work of the Regional Outdoor Learning Network to increase state-level communication across networks and organizations
• Building capacity for agencies, organizations, and collaboratives working statewide to modify or enhance existing programs that support systemic MWEEs
• Building a cadre of professionals to work across the state to increase knowledge sharing and communication pathways for systemic and sustainable environmental literacy programming