EEAI Programs

10/28/2025

Mark your calendars!!

Calling Educators, Naturalists, Outdoor Leaders!

Have a great lesson, project, or program that connects people to nature? We’re now accepting session proposals for the 2026 EEAI Annual Conference, taking place March 27-28th

Share your ideas, inspire others, and help strengthen environmental education across Illinois.

Proposal deadline: 12/8/2025
Submit here: go.illinois.edu/EEAIProposal

08/26/2025

Join the MEEC team as a sponsor! EEAI is actively seeking sponsors for our upcoming Midwest Environmental Educators Conference, taking place in November. Sponsorships helps keep this conference accessible to educators by offsetting costs and providing funds for scholarships.

Join the folks who have already signed on to support us in bringing more environmental education to the Midwest! Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center, Whitetails Unlimited Official, Prairie State Conservation Coalition & Acorn Naturalists

Learn more here: https://eeaoi.wildapricot.org/event-6113689

04/22/2025

02/18/2025

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You may have noticed that EEAI hasn't announced an annual spring conference for this year and that's because 2025 is our year to host the Midwest Environmental Education Conference! This conference brings together EE professionals from Illinois and the rest of the Midwest for an incredible 3 day event packed with learning, adventuring, and friends new and old.

Mark your calendars for November 13-15th and get ready to enjoy all that Southern Illinois has to offer. We can't wait to connect with you.

02/11/2025

Join us for this Virtual Event to get access to spanish language resources from Project Learning Tree and Environmental Education Association of Illinois

Use this link to register: https://eeaoi.wildapricot.org/event-6060695

01/20/2025

Calling all EEAI Facilitators! Thanks to support from our friends at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, EEAI is excited to host a FREE professional development day for our facilitator network.Join us to connect with facilitators from across the state and to deepen your environmental education work.

This event will be held in conjunction with the EEAI annual meeting, so if you sign up for the field day you're also signed up for our Annual Meeting.

All current EEAI facilitators are invited to attend for free, with an included lunch!

Learn more and sign-up here: https://eeaoi.wildapricot.org/event-5955663

Travel stipends are available for Facilitators that live outside of the East Central Region. Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

12/12/2024

There's still time to join EEAI for a virtual Teaching Climate eeCourse!!

This course is designed to provide grades 4-12 formal and non-formal educators with an introduction to environmental education and the skills necessary to integrate climate change environmental education into their classrooms, homeschool classrooms, and programs. We are also happy to announce that classroom educators who complete the entire asynchronous course can be awarded ISBE credit!

**Thanks to grant funding from the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois this course is offered for FREE to educators living and working in Stephenson, Ogle, Boone, and Winnebago counties. Print curriculum is also provided for free to educators from these counties.**

Learn more and sign-up here: https://eeaoi.wildapricot.org/event-5949614

10/27/2024

Lake County Educators Welcome!!

Bilingual Educators! Did you know that Project Learning Tree offers all student workbook pages in Spanish?

Register TODAY to tour activities from PLT's Explore Your Environment curriculum that can be taught to a bilingual audience. Help your students and community deepen their relationship with trees & nature!

Learn more and register here: https://eeaoi.wildapricot.org/event-5834891

10/14/2024

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day we are so happy to share these curated resources from our partners at The Outdoor Learning School & Store!

Find their list here: https://outdoorlearning.com/indigenous-resources-usa

These are all made available on the recommendation of Indigenous staff, advisors and partners, and are all written, created, developed and offered by Indigenous authors, educators and artists, and offered in partnership with a variety of Indigenous publishers, partners and organizations.