Earth Partnership promotes native habitat restoration as a process for community learning and land stewardship
Learning through stewardship:
- Improves educational opportunities for all learners
- Builds meaningful relationships in human communities and with natural communities
- Promotes ecological literacy
- Takes action to heal the land
- Strengthens resilience to environmental and climatic challenges
- Fosters hope in young people and adults
How Earth Partnership Works
Earth Partnership collaborates with diverse communities to create vibrant outdoor learning spaces using a curriculum-based 10-step ecological restoration process. Through facilitated relationship-building and dialogue, communities identify their shared stewardship vision and the ways EP can help make it a reality. Restoration education training is made available to a variety of learners through educator professional development, youth programming, and family and community engagement.
Mission
To engage educators and learners of all ages and backgrounds in community-based ecological restoration for healthy environments.
Vision
For communities across the world to be actively engaged in ecological restoration that connects people to the land and each other through a commitment to stewardship.
News
Nibi gaa-gikinoo’amaage, Nibi gaa-bimaaji’iwemagak (Water Will Teach, Water Will Give Life)
Earth Partnership and Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in collaboration with Bayfield schools provides students with hands-on experiences learning food histories, plant genetics, and food preservation, through land based and traditional Anishinaabe harvest practices. Thank you …
Latino Earth Partnership Teacher and Community Leadership Workshops
Earth Partnership staff Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong and Dr. Maria Moreno collaborated with Dr. Robert Mayer with his staff from the University of Puerto Rico Aguadilla Vida Marina to plan and lead two Latino Earth Partnership Workshops …
Sami Indigenous University Symposium and Ojibwe Birchbark Canoe Cultural Exchange
In early October, Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong, Earth Partnership director, was invited to showcase the Indigenous Arts and Sciences model for equitable education and research in collaboration with tribal communities in Wisconsin at the Sami Indigenous University …
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Thank you to our funders:
Current:
- National Science Foundation
- USDA Forest Service/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- NSF GeoPath
- Mellon (HEAL)
- NOAA B-Wet
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
- USDA Forest Service
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UW-Madison School of Education/Grand Challenges, Private donations, Spencer Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency; Wisconsin ESSA Improving Teacher Quality Program; Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment; Sand County Foundation; Morgridge Center for Public Service; Wisconsin Environmental Education Board; Nuzum – Kickapoo Valley Restoration Fund; NOAA Wisconsin Sea Grant; NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training; Institute of Museum and Library Services; US Environmental Protection Agency – Great Lakes Restoration Initiative; Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Precollege Education Program; USDA Forest Service – More Kids in the Woods Program; UW Center for Biology Education; The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund; Excel Energy; US Fish and Wildlife Service – Schoolyard Strategic Assessment and Action Plan; WI Coastal Management Program; Friends of the UW–Madison Arboretum