2025 Arkansas Environmental & Outdoor Education Conference

Those seeking to further your personal stewardship of your watershed or to inspire stewardship in others, we’re here to give you “why”s and “how”s!

Presenter Jane Hurley will draw connections between engagement in watershed stewardship and community wellbeing, such as benefits to education outcomes, mental health, and lifelong relationships to their environment. Presenters Kristen Crawley and Suzanne Murphy will then share activities and projects they have found effective in developing this connection to the watershed. Through the sharing of experiences in using visual art to explain water flow and connectivity, participants will learn how to engage new audiences. Classroom educators and non-formal educators will come away with resources and strategies to recreate these and more activities.
Target audience: Classroom teachers, PreK-higher education, School administrators, Non-formal educators, Program directors