• Improve our programs,  
• Develop professional development sessions, 
• Track changes in the environmental education community over time.   

Visit this link to fill out the survey:  Agency Professionals Survey, it should only take you 10 minutes.  

We will share the results of the agency and teacher survey with you (all personal information is removed).  

Deadline: February 20, 2012

Please share and spread these surveys through your networks.  

The Alberta Council for Environmental Education and Mount Royal University's Department of Education and Schooling invite you to participate in a dialogue about advancing environmental education within teacher preservice education programs.  

You will explore the environmental education that currently exists at Mount Royal University, and brainstorm and discuss opportunities and strategies to enhance environmental education within Mount Royal University's teacher preparation program.  

Everyone is welcome to attend!  Learn more and register.   

We had a great turn our for the session at the University of Calgary. Review some of the documents discussed here. 

• Exploring Place-Based Education: What, Why and How -    February 9
• Deep Climate Change Education: Learning and Teaching for Personal and Social Transformation - March 9
• Schoolyards Re-Imagined: School Ground Innovation in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond - March 27      

PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Foundation focuses on building community and leadership in the non-profit sector. A couple times a year, ACEE gets a great email from them highlighting relevant studies or websites. This is what we were sent this week:

• The Future Quotient: 50 Stars in Seriously Long Term Innovation (Volans, JWT) - highlighting  organizations that have a whole new capacity to create social change.

•  Helping Hand or Hijacking: How not-for-profits can respond to ever increasing corporate involvement in the community (Boccalandro) - a thought provoking view on how not-for-profit and corporate community investment programs can be better aligned.  

• Improved Annual Reporting for Not-for-Profit Organizations (CICA)  - a guide for Board Members and Management teams who want to prepare high-quality annual reports.

TD Friends of the Environment Support EE    

52% of projects supported by TD Friends of the Environment in 2011 were environmental education. Thanks for for the support TD! Read about the programs in the 2011 Year in Review.  

Story of Stuff Podcasts      

We've all watched at least one of Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff videos. Now they have a podcast called The Good Stuff - focusing on positive stories from around the world. The first episode focuses on plastic bags.  

 Jobs in Alberta 

• Student Internship - Office of Sustainability, University of Alberta 
•  Outreach Assistant - Office of Sustainability, University of Alberta
• Public Program Creation Assistant - Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park (student) 
• Public Program Coordinator - Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park (student) 
• Assit. Summer Camp Leaders - Calgary Zoo (student) 
• Emerald Intern Program - Emerald Foundation  

 If you have any jobs you would like posted on our website and circulated through our social media networks, please send them to Christina.