GOAL # 4
To increase support from parents
and members of parent organizations for EE within their schools.
Objective 4A- Parent
organizations will increase financial support and volunteer time on behalf of EE
programs in their schools.
Objective 4B �
The number of parents expressing support for EE
programming to schoolteachers, administrators, and school board members will
increase.
Strategies for Targeting
Parents and Members of Parent Organizations
A) Organizational Steps
Identify the parent
organizations for schools or school districts and the contact people for
these organizations.
Identify the manner that the
parent organization can further EE. Some examples include: using profits
raised from parent organization fundraisers to purchase EE materials or to
fund residential or day visits to local environmental education/nature
centers or providing parent volunteers as chaperones on EE field trips or
assisting teachers in the classroom with EE activities.
Develop components of the organizing packet including:
- Laws governing EE
curriculum implementation
- The current level of EE
curriculum implementation
- Statistics on parental
support for EE
- An example letter to
request support from parent organizations for EE. The promotional
material "EE Works for Wisconsin" should be included.
B) Implementation Steps
- Alert environmental
educators, specifically those individuals receiving the organizing packet,
as to the benefits of parental support.
- Encourage environmental educators, EE centers/organizations, teachers
and parents to write letters and/or give presentations to parent
organizations describing ways parent organizations can be involved in
supporting EE programs at their school.
- Encourage formal and
nonformal environmental educators to request support from parent
organizations for specific upcoming programs, activities, and
events.
- Encourage organizations to write new releases supporting and describing
the benefits of EE with the target audience of these releases being
parents and parent organizations.
