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Welcome To ANJEE The Alliance for New Jersey
Environmental Education
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The purpose of ANJEE is to provide a structure
for its members which facilitates the improvement
of environmental education (EE) efforts.
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• ANJEE BASICS
• Professional membership organization for
  environmental education
• professionals, practitioners and supporters
• Private, not-for-profit
• Volunteer-led
• Statewide
• Affiliate member of North American Association
  for Environmental Education
• ANJEE central office hosted by New Jersey
  Audubon Society (NJAS) at their
• Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary in
  Bernardsville (Somerset County)
• duties performed by NJAS staff Mike Anderson
  and volunteers
• Founded in 1985 by Patricia Kane,
• Education Director for NJAS (retired)
• and ANJEEs one-and-only (volunteer)
• Executive Director

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ANJEE PURPOSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION The
purpose of environmental education is to create
awareness, understanding and concern for the
quality of the environment and the conviction
that human well-being is dependent upon a healthy
environment. - ANJEE Statement of
Purpose, 1984
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• ANJEE GOALS
• Promote environmental education in all formal
  and informal educational
• endeavors within the state
• Encourage both pre-service and in-service
  training of teachers and
• educational administrators in environmental
  concepts, teaching methods and
• techniques
• Provide a network service for the sharing of
  environmental education
• resources, experiences and expertise and
• Provide leadership in the formation and
  implementation of environmental
• education efforts

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• ANJEE FACES
• Membership ranges from 225 375 members
• Formal education representatives public and
  private schools, home school
• groups, daycare, after-school programs,
  colleges and universities
• Non-formal education representatives nature
  and EE centers, museums, parks,
• zoos, aquariums, government, consultants,
  corporations and businesses
• Supporters scientists, conservationists,
  environmentalists, volunteers,
• environmental commission members, community
  leaders, parents, media
• representatives, artists, writers, students
  and concerned citizens

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• AND LOCATIONS
• 30 Northern Region
• 40 Central Region
• 24 Southern Region
• 6 out-of-state (PA NY)

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• ANJEE AFFILIATIONS
• New Jersey Coalition for Schoolyard Habitats
• Watershed Partnership of New Jersey
• New Jersey Natural Resource Education
  Cooperative
• New Jersey Commission on Environmental Education
• New Jersey Science Education Leadership
  Association
• New Jersey Science Teachers Association
• North American Association for Environmental
  Education

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• ANJEE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Received Environmental Quality award from U.S.
  Environmental Protection
• Agency (Region II) in category of
  Environmental Education (2005)
• Received Outstanding Affiliate award from North
  American Association for
• Environmental Education (2003)
• Received three grants for EE projects NJ EE
  directory Office of the Governor
• watershed outreach DEP and web site
  development U.S. Environmental
• Protection Agency Region II, Environmental
  Education Office
• Provided support for inclusion of environmental
  content in New Jerseys
• classroom standards (science and social
  studies,1996) and monitors standards
• revision processes

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• ANJEE ACCOMPLISHMENTS (continued)
• Championed passage of New Jerseys environmental
  education law, which
• statutorily established commission and
  interagency work group (1995)
• Assisted with development of New Jerseys master
  plan for environmental
• education, Environmental Education in New
  Jersey A Plan of Action (1988
• 1993), is engaged with current development
  of states revised plan (Spring, 2008)
• Established New Jersey Commission on
  Environmental Education as cooperative
• effort between State Departments of
  Environmental Protection and Education (1988)

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• ANJEE SERVICES FOR MEMBERS
• Annual statewide environmental education
  conference
• ANJEE ONLINE and ANJEE ALERT e-mail
  announcements that promote timely
• announcements about environmental education
  resources
• Annual environmental education leadership
  retreat
• Annual statewide awards and recognition program
• Regional programs, events, meetings and other
• networking and enrichment opportunities
• Access to specialized environmental education
  expertise
• Access to national data, trends, reports and
  newsworthy information about the
• field of environmental education

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• ANJEE AND EE FUTURE
• Potential inclusion of EE in federal No Child
  Left Behind reauthorization
• Emphasis on No Child Left Indoors public
  campaigns that resulted from Richard
• Louvs book Last Child in the Woods
• Increased relationships between youth obesity,
  hours spent indoors w/technology,
• and certain health concerns and how
  nature/creative outdoor play can be part of
• solutions
• Emphasis on green building with new school
  construction
• Healthy schools emphasis and links between
  environmental problems and human
• health impacts

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• ANJEE AND EE FUTURE (continued)
• Increased emphasis regarding public involvement
  with solutions to environmental
• problems (i.e., global warming)
• NAAEE guidelines for learner outcomes, EE
  training courses and EE materials
• Development of NCATE standards for EE
  certification
• New Jerseys High School Redesign Committee
  recommendations and third
• revision of classroom standards
• Revision of the states master plan for EE
  delivery

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• ANJEE STRUCTURE AND
• VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
• Join ANJEE and benefit from its services
• Become an informed and engaged member
• Attend regional and statewide functions
• Join a committee/assume a responsibility
• Become a chair or officer
• Represent ANJEE at NAAEE functions

ADVISORY COUNCIL Standing Committees Special
Committees - Finance - Awards -
Conference - Nominations - Newsletter/publicati
ons - Affiliate groups - Program North,
Central, South - Curriculum/training -
Membership - NJ EE directory - Planning -
Public Relations - Web Site

• EXECUTIVE BOARD
• - elected officers
• - chairs of standing committees

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Through your ANJEE involvement...
We are supporting each other.
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