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- Phone Number:
- EcoExpressions@yahoo.com
- Conservation/Sustainability Areas of Interest:
- 2004-05
- Current Work Title:
- www.EcoExpressions.org
- Current Work Mission and Description:
- San Diego, CA, USA
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Project Title
Eco Expressions
Website
www.EcoExpressions.org
Mission, Goal, and Results
Eco Expressions is a nature writing program for youth, based on the healing powers of outdoor exploration and creative writing. In 2004-2005, she provided the innovative literary arts and ecology curriculum to over 140 urban, at-risk students in San Diego.
Since then she has led hiking, camping, canoeing, sailing, and gardening outings with over 30 youth organizations and schools in CA and ID and adapted the Eco Expressions writing curriculum to grades K-12.
With the help of Wild Gift, Jan received a 40K grant to bring Eco Expressions to rural youth in Blaine County, Idaho in 2006-07. She worked with nearly 100 students in the Blaine County School District, conducting afterschool and in-school Eco Expressions fieldtrips.
In 2007, Jan wrote and published Nature Writing Field Guide for Teachers, the multidisciplinary curriculum for the program. Educators and counselors from several states are currently using the curriculum, including: California, Idaho, Wisconsin, Illinois and New York.
Her long-term goal is to establish an Environmental Writing Field Institute and continue publishing books about the wonders of the outdoors.
Eco Expressions
Website
www.EcoExpressions.org
Mission, Goal, and Results
Eco Expressions is a nature writing program for youth, based on the healing powers of outdoor exploration and creative writing. In 2004-2005, she provided the innovative literary arts and ecology curriculum to over 140 urban, at-risk students in San Diego.
Since then she has led hiking, camping, canoeing, sailing, and gardening outings with over 30 youth organizations and schools in CA and ID and adapted the Eco Expressions writing curriculum to grades K-12.
With the help of Wild Gift, Jan received a 40K grant to bring Eco Expressions to rural youth in Blaine County, Idaho in 2006-07. She worked with nearly 100 students in the Blaine County School District, conducting afterschool and in-school Eco Expressions fieldtrips.
In 2007, Jan wrote and published Nature Writing Field Guide for Teachers, the multidisciplinary curriculum for the program. Educators and counselors from several states are currently using the curriculum, including: California, Idaho, Wisconsin, Illinois and New York.
Her long-term goal is to establish an Environmental Writing Field Institute and continue publishing books about the wonders of the outdoors.
Jan D. Wellik's Blog
A Job that Cares about You
A Job that Cares about You
With the upcoming Presidential Election, I find myself drawn to three words heard often during campaign time: Creating more jobs. This makes perfect sense – who doesn't agree with the fact that more job openings are needed for all of the PhD candidates, teachers, carpenters, and CEOs without jobs, well maybe not the CEOs...
The trick is, instead of worrying about creating more jobs, with a lower case “j”, why don’t we spend more time caring about what kind of Jobs w… Continue
With the upcoming Presidential Election, I find myself drawn to three words heard often during campaign time: Creating more jobs. This makes perfect sense – who doesn't agree with the fact that more job openings are needed for all of the PhD candidates, teachers, carpenters, and CEOs without jobs, well maybe not the CEOs...
The trick is, instead of worrying about creating more jobs, with a lower case “j”, why don’t we spend more time caring about what kind of Jobs w… Continue
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