Rooted in Connection & Community Conference Fall 2025
Washington's Outdoor, Environmental, and Sustainability Educators' 2025 Conference:
Rooted in Connection & Community
November 14-16, 2025 at Cispus Learning Center | Randle, WA
A gathering for all outdoor, environmental, and sustainability educators this fall. This will be an in-person event, with lots of space for people to stay in cabins, camp, or attend for a day. Save the Date for and keep an eye out on E3 WA's channels where registration will open shortly.
Stay tuned for registration.
Have you grown in the past few years? We'd love for you to share your experiences with others! You could share:
A new way of teaching or resources that help students who don't usually get enough support in science.
Your story of overcoming obstacles or creating partnerships.
Research that can help us all understand our work better.
How you've created a more inclusive and fair environment for both staff and students.
Experiences with overnight outdoor school, from food service to promotion.
No matter what your story is, we want to hear it! We'll also have some Open Space time to work together with other attendees to build an agenda.
Sponsor the in-person conference at Cispus Learning Center and receive these benefits:
Temperate Rainforest Level - $100
- Logo on event website and conference emails - Resource fair tabling space
Estuary Level - $250
- Everything above, and
- Logo on welcome slides
- Logo and recognition during the live conference and through social media
Prairie Level - $500
- Everything above, and
- Registration fee for one participant waived
Shrub-Steppe Level - $1,000+
- Everything above, and
- Registration fee for a second participant waived
- Verbal promotion in the plenary session
*Support the Rooted in Connection & Community Conference by contributing today and your logo will appear here.
Enjoy browsing past conferences held by E3 Washington as you look forward to future conferences and events.
Hweqwidi Handford McCloud
of the Nisqually Indian Tribe
E3 WA was pleased to host our featured speaker for Friday night of the Growing Together Conference, Hweqwidi Hanford McCloud of the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
Hanford is an enrolled member of the Nisqually Nation located in Lacey. Handford shares that his life's work and passion is practicing and teaching the culture and tradition of the Nisqually people. He teaches basket weaving and carving which includes gathering the cedar bark from the cedar tree. He also does informational and educational presentations of the Nisqually Salish people for Yelm and Thurston County schools and professional, private groups. He ultimately loves sharing his culture and history with the public.
We are incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to hear from Hanford at the Growing Together Conference in the fall of 2024.
