Kansas EE Standards
Final changes have been made to the Environmental Education Standards for Kansas, a document which reflects the breadth of environmental education and KACEE's goal of environmental literacy for all Kansans. The standards, which are non-mandatory, were developed by a committee of educators and natural resource professionals under a grant from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. KACEE would like to express its deepest thanks to the standards team:
- George Potts, Project Coordinator, Wichita Public Schools
- Jim Benz, Turner USD 202, Kansas City
- Kacy Bookout, Martin Primary School, Andover
- Jim Clark, Jr., Wichita Public Schools
- Laura Downey, KACEE
- Connie Elpers, Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita
- Cindy Ford, Pittsburg State University
- Julie Hansen, Martin Primary School, Andover
- Janet Loebel, Kansas State Department of Education
- Diane Maddox, Kansas Project WET Coordinator
- Claudia Peebler, Derby School District
- Bob Sanders, University of Kansas
- Gladys Sanders, Lawrence Public Schools
- Twyla Sherman, Wichita State University
- Gail Shroyer, Kansas State University
- Roland Stein, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
- John Strickler, KACEE
- Shari Wilson, Project Director, KACEE
We greatly appreciate all of the hours of dedication and hard work the standards team provided during the past 18 months.
Work will now begin to correlate these standards to the Kansas core curricular standards and to KACEE-sponsored environmental education programs. If you are interested in working on the correlations, or if you would like a copy of the standards, please contact:
Shari Wilson, Project Director, at: (913)287-6879 or swilson@kacee.org.
The EE Standards for Kansas were based upon the Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines for Learning (Pre K-12) (revised 2004). The EE Guidelines for Learning viewed at: http://naaee.org/pages/npeee/learner_guidelines.html.
