M.
Lynette Fleming, Ph. D.
AEEPE Instructor
Email:
Lyn.Fleming@uwsp.edu or
fleming@cox.net
I am one of the instructors for
Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluation (AEEPE). Like many
environmental educators, I have many jobs and interests. Operating my
consulting business from Tucson, AZ, I am currently conducting
evaluations of several education programs;
conducting evaluation training sessions;
working with Kentucky, Texas, Utah and
Arizona on state-level certification of environmental educators;
assisting the
North American
Association for EE (NAAEE) with accreditation of proficiency-based
certification programs; and serving on the Steering Committee of
MEERA, My
Environmental Education Evaluation Resource Assistant.
An active life member of NAAEE,
I have also served on executive boards for the Pennsylvania Alliance for
Environmental Education and the Arizona Association for Environmental
Education (AAEE), and recently received the Hernbrode Lifetime
Achievement Award from AAEE. My teaching and evaluation priorities
include professional development and participatory evaluation, linking
evaluation with all phases of program development, and helping
stakeholders collect and analyze their own data for program
improvement. My environmental priorities include water harvesting and
knowing the cultural and natural history of every bioregion I have the
opportunity to visit.
My B.S. and M.S. degrees are
from the Pennsylvania State University (studying math, outdoor education
and environmental sciences) and my Ph.D. is from the University of
Colorado (in research and evaluation methodology, and science
education). I have spent more than 30 years designing, facilitating,
and evaluating programs and materials for educators. Two of those
programs, Project WILD and The Green Scene, received Gold Medals for
Education and Communications from the first President George Bush's
Environment and Conservation Challenge Award program. I have run
resident environmental education programs, chaired a college
Environmental Studies program, led month-long trips to study the ecology
of the Virgin Islands, and facilitated Project Learning Tree workshops
throughout North America. I have worked with school districts and
nature centers; private organizations including The Zoological Society
of San Diego, The Wilderness Society, and the National Wildlife
Federation; along with government agencies, including NASA, NOAA, EPA,
USFS, USFWS, and the United Nations.
I team-teach the Education Program Evaluation course offered
through the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC
National Conservation
Training Center) and serve on the Design Team for this online
course, which is based on the NCTC course. Over the last few years we’ve
learned a lot about the needs of environmental educators and natural
resource professionals for evaluating their programs. One of the key
lessons is that evaluation makes sense to people when they apply it
directly to their own programs. That’s one reason we ask that you
continually think about evaluation in the context of your agency or
organization.
One of the great things about
teaching this online course is getting to know environmental educators
from throughout the world.
Regards,
Lyn