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| Trudy Phillips is the Conservancy’s Director for Environmental Education. She thrives on sharing the joy, wonder, and kinship she experiences with the natural world. |
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Trudy holds an M.S. in Environmental Education from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a B.S. in Elementary Education from West Chester University. Her curriculum work at the Conservancy is a synthesis of over 30 years experience as an educator in a variety of settings. She has taught grades 5, 6 & 7 for the Downingtown Area School District; worked as an Expedition Guide for the National Audubon Society’s (NAS) Expedition Institute; served many years as an Associate for the Institute for Earth Education (IEE); led the Education Department as Assistant Director for Education at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia; nurtured the National Audubon Society’s (NAS) Family Camp in Maine and the National Audubon Society’s (NAS) Youth Ecology Camp in Maine as Assistant Director; and, has held the position of Director for Environmental Education at the Conservancy since 1990. In addition, she served many years as a Regional Director, Vice President, President, and Past President for the Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education (PAEE). Trudy believes the raising of her daughter to have been the perfect doctoral program to complement her more formal educational journey.
Trudy has received several awards for excellence which include: the “Early Childhood Professional Award” a national award given by Scholastic, Inc. and Stand for Children at the annual convention of the National Association for the Education of the Young Child (NAEYC); two awards from Pennsylvania’s state environmental education organization known as the Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education (PAEE), “Outstanding Environmental Educator” and, also, the “Outstanding Service Award”; as the principal creator and writer of the Conservancy’s year long kindergarten curriculum, “Friendly Activities with Nature ™(FAWN)” she accepted the “2001 Environmental Excellence Award”, from the Elmwood Zoo; most recently, Trudy accepted the Dr. Ruth Patrick Award from the Water Resources Association (WRA) of the Delaware River Basin for, “… outstanding early childhood, youth and adult environmental education programs…”
“Designing creative, carefully-crafted experiences for students is of the greatest importance. How students learn is just as important as what they learn. Educational experiences offered at the Conservancy must be of the highest caliber.” To that end, Trudy’s most treasured accomplishment has been the creation and development of a wide-ranging, curriculum, which corresponds to students’ developmental age levels, including both their physical and cognitive needs. Every environmental education program at the Conservancy responds to the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE) Academic Standards.
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