Title: teach me outside: building capacity for environmental literacy in maine overview: this grant will build capacity for k-12 environmental literacy within the state of maine by supporting an…

Title: teach me outside: building capacity for environmental literacy in maine overview: this grant will build capacity for k-12 environmental literacy within the state of maine by supporting an existing and growing diverse statewide consortium toward a vision of systemic change where all maine students have the opportunity to become environmentally literate, civically engaged, and understand how their health is connected to that of the natural world. This work support the implementation of maines environmental literacy plan (ELP) across k-12 school districts by developing a climate education literacy plan addendum to the ELP, curating exemplar district and school-specific plans by increasing administrator and educator confidence and understanding of how to implement plans to support climate and environmental literacy. This project also aims to support partnerships between schools and community organizations by increasing connections between stakeholders in maines environmental learning field and developing tools to support these partnerships. Understanding and strengthening environmental literacy will be enhanced by this project through the hosting of an evaluation convening and developing and supporting a unique evaluation community of practice for community-based organization leaders that will increase understanding of culturally responsive program evaluation.