Click here to Join the Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition.
Click here to see a current list of Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition members.
The Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition is working to develop an Environmental Literacy Plan for Wisconsin that will address the environmental education needs of Wisconsin's pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade schools and will pay special attention to creating more opportunities to get kids outside. The Plan will recommend a comprehensive strategy to ensure every child graduates with the environmental skills and knowledge needed to contribute to a sustainable future.
Wisconsin has a strong environmental education foundation already established, with active schools, supporting organizations, and abundant opportunities to get outside in rural and urban settings. The Environmental Literacy Plan will build upon these strengths, and suggest priorities for present and future attention. It will lay out the next steps towards fulfilling on our State's commitment to ensure all people in Wisconsin are environmentally literate.
State Superintendent Evers has formally asked the Coalition to develop the Environmental Literacy Plan for Wisconsin. A Steering Committee meets each month to draft the Plan. The Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition Steering Committee is made up of representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, Wisconsin Environmental Education Board, Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation, Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education, Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Environmental Science Teachers Network, Milwaukee Public Schools, the Green Charter School Network, and the US EPA's Environmental Education and Training Partnership. The broader Coalition is kept updated on progress, provides input and feedback to guide the plan development, and ultimately, will play a key role in implementing and evaluating Wisconsin's Environmental Literacy Plan.
Click Here to the Join Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition.
As a member of the Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition (Coalition), you or your organization:
- Expresses its support for the Coalition’s efforts and will be listed as a member on the Coalition’s website (EEinWisconsin.org, etc) and on letters to decision-makers, if appropriate.
- Will be kept informed by email as to the status of the Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition’s efforts and the national NCLI Act.
- Will be invited to provide input and feedback related to development and implementation of Wisconsin’s Environmental Literacy Plan.
- Expresses its intention to assist with implementing Wisconsin’s Environmental Literacy Plan as appropriate.
- May be asked to contact the media and write to decision-makers in support of Wisconsin’s Environmental Literacy Plan and/or the NCLI Act.
Click here to see a current list of Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition members.
Wisconsin’s Environmental Literacy Plan will align with the pending national No Child Left Inside (NCLI) legislation. The No Child Left Inside Act requires States develop, implement, and evaluate a State Environmental Literacy Plan in order to be eligible to receive funding associated with the Act. Currently, the bill suggests an appropriation of $100 million to support the State Environmental Literacy Plans. You can learn more about the national NCLI Act and its various provisions and requirements here:
www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=948.
For more information about Wisconsin’s NCLI Coalition, contact Jesse Haney (
Jesse.Haney@uwsp.edu).
[Access and share this page's web address
www.ncliwisconsin.org]
News & Information
|  |
First Lady Michelle Obama recently launched her Let's Move Initiative! Research connects the lack of outdoor time to not only increased obesity, but also depression, stress, diabetes, ADD and poor performance in the classroom. National Wildlife Federation invites parents to support the Let’s Move initiative by encouraging their children to spend time outside. Find activities and ideas for outdoor play.
|
| |
The Senate House, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee (HELP) is asking stakeholders to submit comments on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act by May 7, 2010. Please take a few moments today to email the HELP Committee at ESEAcomments@help.senate.gov and let them know that you support the inclusion of the No Child Left Inside Act (S.866) in the reauthorized ESEA.
|
| |
Tia Nelson, Sheboygan Press. As we confront the challenges of climate change, clean energy and other issues, Sen. Nelson's words from a 1991 speech still ring true: "A well designed environmental education program will produce an informed and committed conservation generation that will provide the critical understanding and support for moving the nation to a sustainable economy." And, as my father often said, "the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around."
|
| |
Word continues to spread through the country...and through Congress. The No Child Left Inside Act is now listed as one of four key pieces of legislation in the reauthorization of ESEA on the Ed & Labor Committee Web Site.
|
| |
Across the country, states are busy setting goals for environmental literacy, including here in Wisconsin, where the state’s first Environmental Literacy Plan is being drafted by a new group, the Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition.
|
| |
Former Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, issued a letter of support for the No Child Left Inside Act. "If we want to have a green-jobs economy, we need to give our young people the skills to get the good-paying jobs that will become more and more available and attractive in the coming decade. Indeed, environmental literacy and education are at the very foundation of a sustainable green-jobs economy. We cannot have one without the other."
|
| |
Together with their legislative sponsors, the national No Child Left Inside Coalition today cheered President Obama's budget as a historic moment, noting that environmental literacy has been included in the U.S. Department of Education budget for the very first time.
|
| |
Thanks the work of NCLI partners, 16 Governors sent a letter to US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, urging his consideration of the No Child Left Inside Act as he develops priorities for revamping the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. While Congress has not yet set a timeframe for consideration of the ESEA, discussions are already underway.
|
| |
State Superintendent Tony Evers stated “The Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition is uniquely qualified to develop an environmental literacy plan that will help our schools provide innovative environmental education programs and help our teachers integrate these concepts into their curriculum” in a press release October 22, 2009. In an effort to ensure that every child graduates with the environmental skills and knowledge needed to build Wisconsin’s economy and a sustainable future, the Coalition will develop the state’s first environmental literacy plan.
|
| |
A Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition is working to develop an Environmental Literacy Plan for Wisconsin that will be compliant with the pending national No Child Left Inside legislation. The No Child Left Inside legislation makes new funding available for the development of rigorous standards, teacher training, and environmental literacy programs.
|
