The NOAA chesapeake BAY watershed education and training (b-wet) program will be providing a 3-year, $152,613 grant to boxerwood education association support the tending project nest (nurturing…

The NOAA chesapeake BAY watershed education and training (b-wet) program will be providing a 3-year, $152,613 grant to boxerwood education association support the tending project nest (nurturing environmental stewardship together) project. This project supports new endeavors to strengthen project nest, a long-running equitable and systemic meaningful watershed educational experiences (mwee) partnership between boxerwood education association, a grassroots non-profit, and twelve under- resourced schools in rural western virginia. This specific grant requests funding to strengthen the sustainability of project nest by developing environmental literacy plans (elps) with 2 of the 3 nest school divisions, and by creating a series of 5-min. Video how-we-built-this case studies for sharing nest best practices with both internal and external audiences. The proposal also requests funding for ELP-related teacher professional development, with special interest in integrating mwees and climate education at the unserved high school level.