The conference aims to:
Mobilize and inspire partnerships to achieve the systems and policy changes needed to enhance environmental education in Washington State through the E3 Washington initiative;

• Share innovative approaches to effect positive, sustainable change;

• Demonstrate and celebrate the power and potential of new programs and school-community partnerships;
  

• Actively foster the authentic partnerships of educators and business leaders;

• Provide a fun and dynamic forum to network, share information and build skills;

• Enhance student learning;

• Facilitate participants’ commitment to specific actions they can take to support social and educational change; and

• Honor and support the broader goal of effecting positive, sustainable change for the betterment of society and the natural world.
  

Through active involvement in the conference, participants will:

• Develop a broad and current understanding of environmental education;

• Learn new skills;

• Create more direct and deliberate links between their work and continuously changing social and natural environments;
  

• Achieve their most important objective in coming to the conference;

• Commit to concrete and specific actions they will take upon returning home;

• Establish a peer group for continued learning and information sharing;

• Establish connections with new audiences;

• Commit to one specific environmental goal to achieve upon returning home: and

• Leave the conference energized and motivated to share the information they learned with their community and to accomplish tangible goals.

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