Publicity General: EIC Fact Sheet (pdf) Calendar of Opportunities (pdf) Photo Releases (pdf) Logos - EIC: EIC Logos for Letterheads (pdf) EIC Banners (pdf) 2002 EIC T-shirt (pdf) 2003 EIC T-shirt (MS Word) EIC School Sign (pdf)  History of EIC in Georgia 1994 A study of federal and state education agencies, local school districts, universities and environmental organizations revealed a broad-scale need for better information about strategies that work to integrate environmental content, pedagogy and principles into formal K-12 educational systems. This study found that EE had achieved only minor integration in systemic education reform efforts. 1995 State Education and Environment Roundtable (SEER) was established with funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, a national philanthropy with major interests in both environmental and school reform issues. 1996 SEER began research with schools in 13 states. 1998 SEER published its research findings in Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning. SEER developed a professional development model for teachers and administrators based on the “best practices” identified in its research. 2000 Dr. Gerald Lieberman presented SEER’s findings to 50 environmental education leaders at an Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia (EEA) workshop and 350 teachers and school administrators at EEA’s Outdoor Classroom Council symposium. 2001 SEER invited the Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) to join. Representatives from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GEPD) and the University of Georgia (UGA) commit to serve as co-coordinators of EIC in Georgia. The Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia (EEA) commits to assist with fundraising for the initiative. 2002 Georgia Department of Education distributed applications to all public schools in Georgia. A forty-member committee of educators, representing a wide variety of specialties, reviewed applications from schools across the state and selected the top ten based on their strength to implement the EIC Model, and their geographic and demographic diversity. The State Board of Education approves the initiative as a partnership between the Department of Education, the State Education and Environment Roundtable and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. 2003 Four additional schools were selected and trained. 2004 Additional teams from existing EIC schools were selected and trained.