The Ecology School and Poland Spring Brand Launch National Ecology Education Programs

At the point when numerous understudies have gone to web based learning at home, The Ecology School, a pioneer and pioneer in ecological training, is collaborating with Nestlé Waters North America and its Poland Spring® brand (Poland Spring) to give better approaches to instruct and find out about biology. Together, Poland Spring and The Ecology School are giving understudies first in class, essentially available assets, offering another instructive foundation to prepare nature training pioneers across the country and building up a maintainable learning office in the Northeast.

The Ecology School is scaling their main goal of rousing stewardship of and association with the regular world through nature-based exercises about environment, preservation, cultivating and supportability. Much obliged to a limited extent to the more than $2.3 million in help over a three-year time frame from Poland Spring, together they have created:

EcologyOnline supported by Poland Spring®, an e-learning educational program accessible online for all understudies;

Instructor Institute for Watershed Science and Conservation, supported by Poland Spring®, an experiential expert advancement program for educators the nation over;

Poland Spring® Education and Dining Commons, an as of late built naturally economical office to cultivate instructive encounters.

"Now more than ever, there's a need for virtual education and training that motivates people to get outside and explore the nature in their own backyards. These expanded programs help make environmental education more accessible today, and in the future," said Drew Dumsch, president/CEO and co-founder, The Ecology School. "Growing a national community of environmental stewards is a critical step in our mission to reset the future of people and our planet."

"Bolstering The Ecology School's mission to bring about a more sustainable future is part of our long-standing commitment to environmental education," said Tara Carraro, Executive Vice President & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Nestlé Waters North America. "Through our Poland Spring brand, we're taking a multi-faceted approach to help expand the scale of The Ecology School so that its impact goes beyond Maine and their innovative curriculum and approach is accessible to educators, parents and students from coast-to-coast. Through our giving pillars of Water, Packaging, Health, and Climate, we will continue to support organizations that share our passion to help create the next generation of water stewards."

With regards to active learning, COVID-19 has made extra difficulties. Wellbeing insurances have constrained numerous understudies to go to internet getting the hang of, restricting outside exercises and openings. As indicated by a new review by The Harris Poll, 73% of guardians are concerned their kid or youngsters are losing information because of virtual learning, and 69% of guardians are concerned their kid or kids aren't getting sufficient exercise or time outside during the pandemic. To help guarantee that understudies can propel their learning in sound and profitable manners, The Ecology School's new, virtual learning assets intend to get youngsters and families outside to draw in with nature and the climate.

As a proactive way to address the expanding learning hole for youngsters, Poland Spring brand and The Ecology School are giving three new on the web and in-person approaches for instructing and finding out about nature.

EcologyOnline. The new online e-learning stage, EcologyOnline supported by Poland Spring, gives five learning modules as an educational program planned by specialists at The Ecology School and its educatiosnal accomplices. Every module contains an instructive production, at any rate three open air centered exercises, and activity ventures for genuine application. Not at all like most e-learning programs, EcologyOnline welcomes understudies to get out from behind the PC and take their adapting outside, regardless of their learning climate. The educational plan's online organization combined with outside exercises is centered around inclusivity across provincial, metropolitan and rural territories. EcologyOnline is currently accessible through EcologyOnline.org.