Title: our elizabeth river, our responsibility overview: to promote environmental literacy regarding the elizabeth river and chesapeake BAY and achieve improved engagement in a distressed urban school…

Title: our elizabeth river, our responsibility overview: to promote environmental literacy regarding the elizabeth river and chesapeake BAY and achieve improved engagement in a distressed urban school system, the nonprofit elizabeth river project (ERP) presents our elizabeth river, our responsibility, with partners to provide inquiry-based, hands-on, DEI-focused, systemic meaningful watershed educational experience (mwee) and teacher professional development addressing not only stem sciences but providing local context through culture, history and art with the help of three black university professors in a new partnership. The goal will be to transform science education in portsmouth's 4TH grades, so that all students going forward implement inclusive, systemic mwees, increasing their understanding of the elizabeth river and chesapeake BAY ecosystems while taking action to create a resilient ecosystem and portsmouth public schools embeds mwees into the curriculum with a long-term comm