September 2006 - September 2007
The mission of the New England Environmental Education Alliance is to promote quality environmental
education across New England in partnership with the state environmental education organizations.

Objectives

• Provide regional professional development opportunities
  Strategy: Host conferences, retreats and workshops, for environmental education practitioners, administrators, and state environmental education (EE) board members;
• Recognize exemplary environmental educators and programs in New England
  Strategy: Annual awards program
• Provide current EE information and resources
  Strategies: Publish New England Journal of Environmental Education, Maintain NEEEA website, create and maintain NEEEA list serve and mailing list, via state organization newsletters, be an active NAAEE affiliate
• Assist state EE organizations growth and development
  Strategies: All of the above!

Accomplishments

• Provided support and guidance for states hosting the NEEEA Annual Conference, working with the RI Conference Committee to finish the last details of a successful 2006 conference, the ME Conference Committee to support the organization of the 2007 conference and the NH Conference Committee on the 2008 conference.
• Following the transformation of the NEEEA list to a true moderated listserve, NEEEA continued to nurture the listserve as an important regional communication tool.
• Hosted an Environmental Education Administrators Retreat at Tower Hill Botanical Garden.
• Planned a State Leadership Retreat for November 2007.
• Presented the annual NEEEA awards for Environmental Education at the 2007 conference.
• Continued the electronic publication of the New England Journal of Environmental Education (NEJEE) articles on the NEEEA website.