The Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the impact of environmental and outdoor education in California. AEOE was established to provide a space for educators to connect, establish a supportive community, and share best practices for teaching about the outdoors and the environment. We envision a world where every young person lives in a healthy community with access to meaningful learning experiences outdoors. Our efforts are focused in the following areas: CONNECT We convene program providers to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive network of skilled practitioners EDUCATE We provide learning opportunities that are aligned with best practices and content relevant for our field ADVANCE We promote high-quality environmental education among the varied programs across the state and advocate for all young people to experience meaningful learning opportunities outdoors We believe that everyone has the right to the physical, social, emotional, and academic benefits of learning outdoors. As the professional association for environmental and outdoor education in California, AEOE provides programs and practitioners with the tools, resources, and expertise to ensure that future generations are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and experiences necessary to develop lifelong connections to the natural world and the commitment to sustain it. Our logo, the oak tree, is symbolic of our community's work of planting seeds in the hearts and minds of young people California, to make the world a better place: seeds of knowledge, seeds of understanding, seeds of appreciation, seeds that we hope will grow into positive actions for a healthy environment for all. California’s great diversity of oaks are highly important to the first people, as acorns in many Indigenous cultures are considered “staff of life.” We hope the seeds we sow today will be of equal importance to the Californians of the future.