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Naturalizing Early Childhood in Colorado: The ECHO Initiative

About This Webinar

Healthy, natural, affordable. These are the foundations of Colorado’s new Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) Initiative created to ensure all young children in Colorado have daily access to quality outdoor learning environments where play and learning support development across all domains—cognitive, physical, social, and emotional. As a beautiful marriage between grants, training, technical assistance, and the natural world, the ECHO Initiative will impact children and educators across Colorado.

Join us for an informative webinar to learn about the ECHO Initiative and the Outdoor Learning Environment Toolkit, participate in an interactive conversation about current early childhood environmental education programs, and share with us how your work fits with ECHO Initiative goals as we seek to elevate the quality of outdoor learning environments across the state.

Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Webinar ID: 4b9dae72f8f6
Featured Presenters
Webinar hosting presenter Katie Navin
Executive Director
Hi! I am the Director of the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education and am very excited to share and network with Colorado's EE Community! One of my favorite parts of my job is advancing a Colorado Environmental Literacy Plan.
Webinar hosting presenter
Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) Program Director
Sarah Konradi, PLA, ASLA, is a licensed Landscape Architect experienced in working with underserved communities to improve the outdoor built environment to promote and sustain meaningful connections between young children and the natural world. She is the Program Director of the Early Childhood Health Outdoors program at the National Wildlife Federation, Rocky Mountain Regional Center, working across the state of Colorado to improve the quality of outdoor play spaces used by young children and families. Her previous role as Senior Design Associate at the Natural Learning Initiative, College of Design, NC State University, also focused on improving children’s healthy development through design education and technical assistance for the implementation of naturalized outdoor learning environments. She has been involved in the programming and design of a wide range of outdoor spaces, including childcare centers, schools, parks, community centers, public gardens, and other sites around the U.S. Sarah worked for over five years on the development and implementation of the Preventing Obesity by Design program, addressing the obesity epidemic in young children attending childcare by transforming childcare outdoor learning environments (OLEs) into active, productive, best practice demonstration sites. In her free time, Sarah enjoys gardening and spending time outdoors with her husband, two young children, and her sheepdog, Tess.
Webinar hosting presenter
Training Manager
Adrienne Sedlak is the Training Manager at Qualistar Colorado, a statewide organization that strives to elevate the quality of early childhood education in Colorado by improving the everyday practice of professionals, and by building, safe, supportive environments. Adrienne joined Qualistar in 2016 and works to provide high-quality professional development opportunities for early childhood education professionals across the state.

Prior to joining Qualistar, Adrienne was the Education and Volunteer Coordinator and then the Co-Manager of Education at the Plains Conservation Center. While there, Adrienne developed and implemented mission-focused educational opportunities for schools and families. She developed the organization's volunteer recruitment and engagement strategy, and she supported the organization's fundraising efforts.

Adrienne was a preschool teacher for four years. She started her teaching career in Washington D.C. as a Teach for America Corps Member, and she returned to Colorado in 2010 and was a lead preschool teacher for Aurora Public Schools.

Adrienne received a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Environmental Science from the University of Denver and a Master of Education: Curriculum and Instruction from George Mason University. She has been involved with several education and environmental nonprofit organizations in Colorado and Washington D.C.

Adrienne believes in the importance of connecting young children to nature as a way of nurturing their curiosity and providing them with the skills they need to be successful.
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An online community for CAEE members across Colorado to network, share, and learn about environmental education.
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