{"id":7139,"date":"2016-02-28T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2016-02-28T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:21:13","slug":"losing-a-legend-in-environmental-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/losing-a-legend-in-environmental-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing a Legend in Environmental Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles E. \u201cChuck\u201d Roth was and will continue to be a legend in the field of Environmental Education. Sadly, Chuck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/name\/charles-roth-obituary?pid=1000000177839128\">passed away<\/a> on Sunday, February 21 after a period of declining health.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck shaped the profession of environmental education in Massachusetts, New England, and the nation.\u00a0He was a founding member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/massmees.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Environmental Education Society\u00a0<\/a>and a leader in developing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neeea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New England Environmental Education Alliance<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sageee.wordpress.com\/\">Secretaries Advisory Group on Energy and Environmental Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">What he was less known for was the fact that he literally coined the phrase \u201cenvironmental literacy\u201d, a term that is central to so much of our work in recent years.\u00a0During his time at Mass Audubon from 1968-1988, he set the course for the strong reputation that both Drumlin Farm and Mass Audubon as a whole have today.<\/p>\n<p>It is not unexpected that Chuck was so prescient of where the field of Environmental Education was headed. As Mass Audubon\u2019s first appointed Director of Education, he was instrumental in developing programs that built the capacity of classroom teachers to extend science learning into their schoolyards and neighborhoods. He wrote of the deep connection between humans and their environment and the need for environmental educators to design programs that tapped both the minds and hearts of people of all ages. He also advocated for the design of Environmental Education in our cities\u2014large and small\u2014today, what is recognized as Urban Environmental Education.<\/p>\n<p>Always a leader in connecting people to the nature, for the past couple of years Chuck worked with today\u2019s leaders in the environmental field to inform and inspire an updated environmental education plan for Massachusetts. Chuck will be dearly missed by many friends and colleagues at Mass Audubon.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service to celebrate his life will be held on Monday, February 29, at 10:30 AM in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newburycourt.org\/contact.htm\">Duvall Chapel at Newbury Court<\/a> located at 100 Newbury Court in Concord.\u00a0Donations in Chuck&#8217;s memory may be made to <a href=\"http:\/\/littletonconservationtrust.org\/donate\/\">Littleton Conservation Trust<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nedeaconess.org\/giving.htm\">New England Deaconess Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Kris Scopinich, Mass Audubon&#8217;s Director of Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles E. \u201cChuck\u201d Roth was and will continue to be a legend in the field of Environmental Education. Sadly, Chuck passed away on Sunday, February 21 after a period of declining health. Chuck shaped the profession of environmental education in Massachusetts, New England, and the nation.\u00a0He was a founding member of the\u00a0Massachusetts Environmental Education Society\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-1R9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14126,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/losing-a-nature-hero-liz-duff\/","url_meta":{"origin":7139,"position":0},"title":"Losing a Nature Hero: Liz Duff","author":"Mass Audubon","date":"May 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"On May 15, we lost a member of our family, someone whose work embodied the integration of education, science, conservation, and community-based advocacy. 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