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Photos by Mike Ewen, Tallahassee Democrat
Sandy Beck has served as the
Education Curator for the St.
Francis Wildlife Association in Tallahassee, Florida, since
1989 and developed The Wild Classroom
in 1990.
In 1991, she received a grant
from the Florida Advisory Council on Environmental Education
to write, field test and publish an interdisciplinary curriculum
guide for teachers, "Conserving
Florida Wildlife." A 2004 Nature of Learning grant from
the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation enabled her to create
"Wild
Words for Wild Wings," a unique program for children
that combines bird watching, poetry, visual arts and technology. The Foundation funded this grant for three years.
She developed an Environmental
Studies curriculum for gifted students which she taught from
1994 - 2001 at the Academic Resource Center in Leon County, FL.
She has been a classroom teacher
in elementary, middle and high schools in Miami and Tallahassee,
Florida. She taught writing classes at Tallahassee Community
College and at FSU's Center for Professional Development and
wrote a monthly environmental column for the Tallahassee Democrat.
In addition to her work as Education
Director of The Wild Classroom she currently teaches gifted and talented students at Astoria Park Elementary School, writes a monthly column about wildlife for the Tallahassee Democrat's Chronicle and, as a freelance nature writer, is a regular contributor to Florida Wildlife Magazine and other publications.
Mrs. Beck was the Leon Association
of Science Teachers' 1998 Middle School Science Teacher of
the Year and the Academic Resource Center's Teacher of
the Year in 1997 and 2001.
She has presented at numerous
professional conferences, from the Florida Council of Teachers
of English (FCTE) to the League of Environmental Educators of
Florida (LEEF). She was also Festival Director of the 2004 and
2005 Tallahassee Wildife Festivals.
She has a B.S. in Elementary
Education from Florida International University and an M.S. in
English Education from Florida State University.
Professional Resume
Publications
by Sandy Beck
E-mail
The Wild Classroom
St. Francis Wildlife Association
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