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 Stretch and soak up some sun as you peruse the Morning Announcements! Photo by Brooke Newton/CBF Staff.
Earn Credit this Summer with CBF!
Explore amazing ecosystems and fantastic teaching resources while you earn recertification or graduate credit during CBF's five-day, field-based teacher courses. Each teacher receives a $1,500 scholarship from CBF donors for their participation (remaining teacher/school district responsibility is $300 for most courses). See course schedules and registration.
Nominations Now Accepted for Bartlett Environmental Education Award
Honor an outstanding high school teacher who successfully integrates environmental education into their curriculum and engages students in interdisciplinary solutions to environmental challenges. Teachers serving grades 9-12 are eligible to apply. The winning teacher will receive $5,000 to support their work in environmental education. Nominations are due June 8.
Principal Leadership Program
Our summer programs aren't just for teachers. Our Environmental Leadership for Principals Program teaches principals how to implement a school program that utilizes and benefits the local environment. Read more...
Grants Galore!
From farm to school to learning and leadership, there are many funding opportunities on the Bay Backpack’s website. Be sure to check them out!
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 Awards for a MD Teacher
Ophelia Barzio's passion for hands-on, outdoor learning has garnered her a number of awards, including the 2012 High School PASCO STEM Educator Award. Read how she uses CBF's field programs to energize her students.
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 Crab Baby Boom
A booming number of baby crabs has boosted the Chesapeake Bay's crab population to its highest level since the early 1990s—great news for crabs, crabbers, our economy, our stomachs, and the Bay. Read on...
QUOTES FROM THE FIELD
Spring update from Fox (nature) News (AKA Fox Island):
"Finished our trip with Norfolk Collegiate, complete with a huge pod of playful dolphins that visited two days in a row, a huge terrapin in the scrape along with four seahorses, a pregnant male pipefish, and a male horseshoe crab. It's those rare spring days when we still see northern gannett hunting with the dolphins and the scoter gathering like a mirage on Pocomoke sound by the thousands preparing to migrate. Meanwhile summer's shanty birds and terns have already arrived and wheel through the evening doing mating dances. It's all too much! So awesome..."
—Eric Smith, Fox Island Seasonal Educator
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