Events

Texas Children in Nature Network Summit

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December 11, 2024 12pm - December 13, 2024 12:30pm

2024 Texas Children in Nature Network Summit

December 11-13, 2024 at the Waco Convention Center in Waco, Texas

Presented by H-E-B.

Location: 100 Washington Ave, Waco, TX 76701

During this three-day Summit, TCiNN will bring...

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Fundraising Events

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November 18, 2024 11am

Join us on November 18th from 11:00-9:00 at SmashBurger and help support Texas Children in Nature Network through your purchase!

SmashBurger is generously donating a portion of their profits to TCiNN on the 18th and we are excited to partner with them. Join us for lunch or dinner on the 18th, all you need to do is show the attached flier to your waitstaff and a portion of your ticket will be donated to TCiNN.

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December 5, 2024 5:30pm

Join us on December 5th from 5:00-8:30 at Torchy's Tacos - Lincoln Heights and help support Texas Children in Nature Network through your purchase!

Torchy's Tacos is generously donating a portion of their profits to TCiNN on the 5th and we are excited to partner with them. Join us for dinner on the 5th, all you need to do is show the attached flier to your waitstaff and a portion of your ticket will be donated to TCiNN.

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Webinars

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January 8, 2025 2pm

Webinar with Jimena Vivanco - Conservation Manager, Trinity Park Conservancy

Explore the essentials of creating and managing a successful youth-based conservation crew with Trinity Park Conservancy. This session will provide valuable insights into the design and organization of a dedicated conservation team focused on the Trinity River in the Dallas area. Whether you’re a program coordinator, conservationist, or community leader this...

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January 22, 2025 2pm

Health Webinar with Jana Renner, Senior Program Officer, Paso del Norte Health Foundation, and Rose M Z Gowen, MD, Brownsville City Commissioner

Join us for an engaging presentation on the transformative power of two urban trails along the Texas border. This session will delve into how the Caracara Trails in Brownsville and the Paso del Norte Trail in El Paso promote physical activity and active transportation in these communities....

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February 5, 2025 2pm

Webinar with Caitlin Tran, Program Manager, Texan By Nature

Texan by Nature (TxN) believes that local, on-the-ground conservation is a vital part of an enduring sustainability strategy for industry, municipalities, and individuals alike. Unfortunately, trusted frameworks and standard data sets are largely unavailable. These types of tools are foundational in understanding baseline needs, setting goals, measuring results, and reporting...

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March 5, 2025 2pm

Webinar with Mark Davison, Park Planning, Design and Construction Manager, City of Boulder, Colorado

As the dad of a daughter who experiences disabilities and as a professional who has spent his career working in National, state and city parks conserving nature and designing parks, I have found my professional and personal life at odds. My career path has focused on park planning, park design, visitor experience, land management, and...

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April 9, 2025 2pm

Dive into the benefits of outdoor unstructured free play and learn how it supports the foundational skills needed for literacy to flourish. The aim is to enhance your current strategies used to support reading and writing in the early years and beyond. Participants will understand how and why gross motor skills developed through child-led play to support the foundational skills of literacy, explore and expand outdoor activities on their...

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May 7, 2025 2pm

Webinar with Daniel Ramirez, Senior Manager, Gen:Thrive - EcoRise

Environmental literacy, green schools, children in nature, climate education, e-STEM, environmental justice. Across the U.S., there is a plethora of organizations offering resources for K-12 students with the vision of cultivating empowered, sustainability leaders and healthy, green, equitable schools. Under this shared banner, there is a significant opportunity to join...

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May 21, 2025 2pm

Webinar with Ky Harkey, The Visitor Experience

Folks love Park Prescription Programs, so why are they so hard to launch? Nature is the fourth pillar of health, and park prescription programs help engage patients with nature for positive health outcomes. This webinar will explore a step-by-step blueprint to launching and leading successful Park Rx initiatives. Attendees will learn strategies for identifying and engaging healthcare...

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June 4, 2025 2pm

Webinar with Laura Tadena, Community Engagement Librarian, Austin Public Library

Join us to explore how Austin Public Library is building nature into its services through StoryWalks as part of its Nature Smart Libraries initiative. In this webinar, we will provide an overview of how the library established four permanent StoryWalks, including one with a Braille overlay, through support from a Texas State Library and Archives grant....

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Teacher Workshops

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January 11, 2025 10am

Presenter: Kelly Hibbeler Albus, Ph.D., Research Scientist in the Texas Water Resources Institute’s Urban WISH team at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas

In this one-hour webinar, we will explore how to empower students to channel their environmental concerns into meaningful action. The session will focus on citizen science and the use of the National Geographic Slingshot Challenge, a platform where...

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February 8, 2025 10am

Virtual Teacher Workshop with Heather Kuhlken, Founder & Executive Director and Jo Joly, Program Manager, Families in Nature

Join Families in Nature as we explore our PEEP (Park Environmental Education Project) program, which provides custom, accessible, experiential education resources tailored to schools and green spaces across the U.S. This webinar will showcase our Ecologist School Pocket Guides, featuring 64 engaging lessons...

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March 8, 2025 10am

Teacher Workshop with Mackenzie Feldman, Project Director, Re:wild Your Campus

Join us for an inspiring webinar designed for K-12 educators, led by Re:wild Your Campus, an organization that was first started by students on a mission to make their campus grounds more sustainable. This session will give you actionable ways to engage students in climate action through the lens of pesticide reduction and increased biodiversity on campus...

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April 26, 2025 10am

Virtual Teacher Workshop with Dr. Debbie Rhea, Professor in Kinesiology and Associate Dean of Research and Health Sciences in HCNHS at Texas Christian University and Project Creator & Director LINK Center for Health Play

We are in an era of many choices of how to offer a school environment. Parents can choose to send their children to any number of types: public, private, charter, forest, home schools. Some cost more than others,...

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Texas Children in Nature Network Partner Exclusive Professional Developments

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December 18, 2024 2pm

Partner Exclusive Webinar with Warinda Harris, Organizer, Central Texas Interfaith (CTI)

Central Texas Interfaith (CTI) is a non-partisan broad-based coalition of over 50 congregations, schools, health clinics, workers’ groups, and social service organizations in the 10-county area of central Texas. Founded in East Austin by its oldest institutions of color, we have created systemic change for over 35 years through institutional...

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April 16, 2025 2pm

Partner Exclusive webinar with Stephanie Gonzalez, Education Programs Coordinator, Houston Zoo, Liz Viril, Education Specialist, American Bird Conservancy, Kate Unger, Resilience in Schools Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation

The Houston Zoo, National Wildlife Federation, and SPLASh have partnered to support schools' passion for connecting with nature while removing barriers in the Greater Houston area. The partnership leverages...

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Interested in Presenting?

Are you interested in presenting at one of our webinars and workshops? We are always looking for innovative programs and resources to share with our partners. To propose a session fill out our interest form.