Outstanding Educator
Steve Scharosch
Steve operates Abacus Enterprises, Inc., a firm that develops and uses quantitative methods for land management planning. As a forest biometrician, he works with landowners …
Steve operates Abacus Enterprises, Inc., a firm that develops and uses quantitative methods for land management planning. As a forest biometrician, he works with landowners …
Nancy Loewenstein is an Alabama Extension Specialist with the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. She promotes environmental education as a teacher, facilitator, …
Maurine Rose Banzhaf, Master Environmental Educator, Woodland Park, Colorado When she moved to Colorado from Texas in 2010, Rose became an active, enthusiastic leader in …
Marne Titchenell, Extension Wildlife Program Specialist, Ohio State University Extension, Columbus, Ohio Marne provides educational programs, workshops, conferences, and publications on a variety of natural …
Chanda Cooper, Education Coordinator, Richmond Soil and Water Conservation District, Columbia, South Carolina Chanda frequently uses PLT activities to teach more than 2,000 K–12 students …
Helping kids learn from nature is all in a day’s work for Project Learning Tree’s 2016 National Outstanding Educators. Here’s how they do it.
Karen Johnson Folsom is lead teacher at Nature’s Classroom Environmental Education Center in Florida, reaching 15,000 6th graders each year.
Dave Shafer uses the outdoors to teach a range of STEM topics to students at Skiles Test Elementary School in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jennifer Hubbard-Sánchez is the state specialist for sustainable programs and directs the center for environmental education at Kentucky State University in Frankfurt.
Susan Snyder creates and leads programs for K-12 students in ecology and soil science at Ogden Nature Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.