BACK TO SCHOOL—OUTREACH & EDUCATION:  Texas Parks 
and Wildlife works with educators to bring nature to the 
classroom… on Passport to Texas Back to School Week.

This is Passport to Texas Back to School Week (Aug 6)

You might wonder why TPW trains teachers to provide 
outdoor education and conservation curricula, when many 
groups statewide already address those areas.
 
10—So, typically, if you’re working with school groups, you’ll 
have a more diverse audience, and a more diverse representation 
of the population than you would in a self-selected or volunteer 
group.

Johnnie Smith is director of Outreach and Education for 
TPW, which offers wide ranging programs.

17— Under Outreach & Education, we have angler education, 
boater education, hunter education—all of our outreach and 
recruitment efforts [like the Texas State Fare]—and then lastly we 
have a section that’s called conservation Education. Those are the 
folks that work directly with school-aged children and teachers. 

Conservation programs include Project Wild, TCiN and 
community water curricula. Teachers receive training and 
resource materials so they can expose students to natural 
resources, wildlife and habitat.

20—Because, what we find is, that until somebody establishes an 
affinity for nature, they’re not likely to ever develop a conservation-
minded approach, or stewardship approach. And so, we hope that 
that investment in the kids will yield us folks that are stewardship 
and conservation-minded in the future.

Bring the Texas outdoors to your classroom; learn how 
when you click the Education tab on the TPW website.  

Our show receives support from RAM Trucks: Built to 
Serve. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I’m Cecilia Nasti.




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