The Chevrolet GREEN Educator Award recognizes teachers, college professors and volunteers who have taken an initiative to integrate environmental education into their schools and community programs.
Richmond, VA (PRWEB) December 16, 2011
River Legacy Nature and Science Center, has won a Chevrolet GREEN Educator Award. The Chevrolet GREEN Educator Award recognizes teachers, college professors and volunteers who have taken an initiative to integrate environmental education into their schools and community programs.
“We are excited to join Earth Force in honoring Ms. Dillingham for her amazing work fostering the next generation of leaders,” said Vivian Pickard, President of the GM Foundation. “Educators like Ms. Dillingham represent the very best of our educational system, and we are proud to join them in engaging America’s youth as leaders.”
Dillingham is a naturalist and educator at the River Legacy Nature and Science Center in Arlington, Texas. She has actively led the center and GREEN partnership development in water and environmental science education, integrating STEM and curriculum advancements which significantly benefit local school teaching and testing.
Dillingham eagerly spearheaded the resurrection of the center’s dormant Scout programs, expanded the Saturday offerings for families and adults and enthusiastically agreed to be River Legacy's coordinator in the implementation of a new GREEN program for Arlington Independent School District's seventh graders. In partnership with Arlington's General Motors operation and the Arlington School District, this exciting environmental education and community service learning curriculum will allow River Legacy to extend its reach into the city's junior high schools and build on the foundations laid by the environmental education programs they provide for the District's younger grades.
“It is such an honor for Earth Force to recognize educators, like Teddy, for the Chevrolet GREEN Educator Award,” said Lisa Bardwell, President/CEO of Earth Force. “She has gone above and beyond the call of duty to inspire and support her students in taking action to improve their communities. Each of the educators receiving this award has done an exemplary job of incorporating environmental awareness and civic action into formal instruction.”
Educators of all kinds, including K-12 classroom teachers, higher education faculty and informal community-based instructors who have made a substantial effort to promote environmental engagement among youth are eligible for the award. The GM Foundation and Earth Force will reward 5 educators each month in the search to find the 20 best “GREEN” educators nationwide. Winners will also be featured on the Earth Force website, along with their teaching tools and ways they get their students involved. Some prerequisites for possible award winners are: keeping students active in their community, helping students understand the importance of the relationship between civic life and environmental health, and also encouraging other educators, administration, and community members to do the same.
For more information about The Chevrolet GREEN Educator Award and Earth Force’s mission and programs, please visit http://www.greeneducator.org and contact Kristen Mueller at kmueller@earthforce.org.
About GM GREEN
GM GREEN is a partnership between General Motors, community-based organizations in GM communities and the nonprofit organization Earth Force. Through the program, young people are challenged to be active community citizens, tackling water quality issues with hands-on science. More than 8,500 students participate every year, and this number will continue to grow as schools see the benefits of watershed-based education and problem solving.
About the GM Foundation
Since its inception in 1976, the GM Foundation had donated hundreds of millions of dollars to deserving American charities, educational organizations and to disaster relief efforts worldwide. The GM Foundation focuses on supporting Education, Health and Human Services, Environment and Energy and Community Development initiatives, mainly in the communities where GM operates. Funding of the GM Foundation comes solely from GM. The last contribution to the GM Foundation was made in 2001. For more information, visit http://www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/community.
About Earth Force
Earth Force is passionate about young people finding their voice while assuming leadership roles in solving local environmental problems. Earth Force envisions a nation where young people from all walks of life are actively making positive change to the environment at their schools, in their neighborhoods, and in partnership with their communities. Earth Force works to build partnerships across the country, including GM communities. For more information about Earth Force, please visit http://www.earthforce.org.
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Kristen Mueller
Earth Force Inc
(314) 640-4413
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