The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication/
Le réseau canadien pour d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement (EECOM)
Strategic and Organizational Plan 2015-2020
The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication/ Le réseau canadien pour
d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement (EECOM) is Canada’s only national, bilingual,
charitable network for environmental learning.
Vision: Canadians are environmentally literate, engaged in environmental stewardship and contribute to a
healthy, sustainable future for all
Mission: The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM) works strategically
and collaboratively to advance environmental learning for all Canadians
Goals
1.
Effectively demonstrate and promote the value of EL
2. Strengthen and expand a Canada-wide network for EL
3.
Build capacity of EL associations, organisations and practitioners to engage Canadians in EL
4.
Increase EECOM’s internal capacity
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The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication
Le réseau canadien pour d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement
The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication/
Le réseau canadien pour d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement (EECOM)
Strategic and Organizational Plan 2015-2020
Goals
Objectives
1. Effectively
demonstrate and
promote the value
of environmental
learning
a) Lead, coordinate or participate in national initiatives
(programs, policies, campaigns) that position
environmental learning as an essential component of
formal, non-formal and informal education across Canada
b) Facilitate the dissemination of new and existing
environmental learning research, benchmarks and
standards to environmental learning associations,
organisations and practitioners
c) Promote and recognise the contributions of
environmental learning associations, organisations and
practitioners in formal, non-formal and informal
environmental learning sectors
2. Strengthen and a) Facilitate an increased level of dialogue, networking
expand a Canada- and collaborations amongst environmental learning
wide network for practitioners associations and organisations in Canada
environmental
learning
b) Actively engage associations, organisations and
practitioners representing new sectors with an interest in
environmental learning
Activities
● Facilitate process to advance an Environmental Education Act in Canada in collaboration
with provincial/territorial environmental associations
● Participate in national environmental learning initiatives including expert panels and
member-led initiatives
● Collaborate to promote and disseminate environmental learning publications, specifically
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (CJEE), Regards - Recherches – Réflexions
and Green Teacher Magazine
● Host poster sessions program at EECOM’s conference
● Create other opportunities for sharing such as through a EECOM newsletter
● Animate EECOM annual awards program
● Pursue relationships with environmental learning related authorities such as the Canadian
Ministers of Education Council
● Plan EECOM annual conference program
● Facilitate networking amongst Canadian environmental learning associations and
practitioners
● Formalize collaborative arrangements with environmental learning associations,
organisations and other relevant partners
● Connect with other EE-related networks through our visible presence at their
conferences
● Pursue cultural diversity and inclusiveness initiatives
● Compile and share best practices for inclusiveness in relation to conference and other
event participation
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The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication
Le réseau canadien pour d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement
The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication/
Le réseau canadien pour d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement (EECOM)
Strategic and Organizational Plan 2015-2020
Goals
Objectives
3. Build capacity of a) Support the ongoing development of
environmental
provincial/territorial environmental learning associations;
learning
environmental learning organisations; and organisations
associations,
that have an interest in environmental learning which is
organisations and consistent with EECOM’s vision
practitioners to
engage Canadians
in environmental
learning
b) Offer professional development opportunities to
individual EL practitioners
4. Increase
a) Build and maintain the internal capacity and structure
EECOM’s internal needed for EECOM to achieve its vision, mission and
capacity
goals
b) Diversify and further engage membership
c) Secure a diversified and stable funding base sufficient
to implement this strategic plan
Activities
● Deliver national leadership clinics within EECOM Leadership Clinic Program and regional
/ sectoral / organisational leadership clinics in collaboration with like associations and
organizations
● Pursue a needs assessment within the environmental learning community in Canada that
would include monitoring of trends and interests from diversity of information sources
● Assess needs and opportunities to create, collaborate or support existing professional
development programs
● Ongoing development, review and update of EECOM key policies
●
Engage and support EECOM volunteers, including board members
● Pursue a membership drive including a review of membership requirements, benefits and
engagement opportunities
● Engage in fund seeking through corporate, government, organization or person gifts,
program partnerships, planned giving campaign
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The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication
Le réseau canadien pour d'éducation et de communication relatives à l’environnement