University of Wisconsin, Stevens-Point
Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) – a national project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Through a five-year grant, the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) funding has supported Project WET USA in the following areas:

Strengthening environmental education networks
Goal: Increase delivery of environmental-education training and long-term support to formal (in classroom) and informal (outside classroom) education professionals across North America. This enables these educators to:

• effectively teach about environmental issues.
• use environmental education to:
  • improve teaching and learning.
  • achieve a healthy and sustainable environment.

Areas of focus include:

• leadership training for environmental education networks.
• in-service training (for middle/high school and urban educators [pre-K to 8th grades]).
• pre-service faculty training.
• informal (outside classroom) educator training.

Correlating environmental education resources
Goal: Develop correlations to state academic standards for supplementary curriculum resources.

Over the past four years, EETAP funding has supported Native Waters in the following area:

Reaching Tribal communities with environmental education training
Goals:

• gather information about the diverse relationships found in Tribal communities.
• provide environmental education training and long-term support to educational professionals working in culturally diverse Tribal communities across the United States.
• provide helpful advice for non-Tribal environmental educators and environmental education trainers about Tribal communities’ protocol.

About EETAP
The Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education through a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. EETAP serves as a national leader in delivering environmental education training to education professionals. www.eetap.org

EETAP:

• Supports a wide array of education professionals.
• Is committed to ensuring that ethnically diverse and low-income communities benefit from and actively participate in education that advances student learning and environmental literacy. 

NOTE: EETAP is the national training program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Environmental Education established through the National EE Act of 1990. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) administers EETAP through a cooperative agreement with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.