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About: Celeste Royer

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Celeste Royer is a veteran administrator with forty years of experience in environmental and outdoor education. As director of environmental education at the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education, she directed Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School’s residential, field, and classroom programs. As director of the California Regional Environmental Education Community Network, she built regional and statewide partnerships to support environmental education programs and initiatives. She provided thirty years of leadership and support to the California Outdoor School Association. A strong advocate of environmental literacy for all, Celeste serves on several boards of organizations that promote equity, justice, and conservation in environmental education including Justice Outside and the Land Conservancy of SLO County. She is also a volunteer with Latino Outdoors and helps coordinate the Central Coast chapter. Celeste holds degrees from UCLA, SFSU, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

CAELI Partner Portal: Gateway to Exploration and Learning in Nature

  • November 13, 2024

One wonderful memory I have of my many years directing an outdoor school was leading a group of students along the trail when we came upon a dragonfly nymph attached...

A Blueprint for Change: CAELI’s Theory of Action Revised

  • December 5, 2022

What is a Theory of Action? Great question, I’m so glad you asked. There are several definitions, but here are a few that will give us a general understanding. A...

CAELI Community-Based Partner Hub Continues to Connect Leaders to Local Environment-Based Learning Opportunities

  • April 13, 2022

The CAELI Community-Based Partner (CBP) Hub launched in spring 2021 with the goal of increasing visibility and access to environmental education partners. It was a vital need for the environmental...

How California Environmental Education Providers Are Keeping Student Success at the Forefront During the Pandemic

  • May 13, 2020
In this Q&A, three environmental education leaders share how critical environmental educational experiences are to connecting youth with the natural world, and building the critical skills in science, leadership and...

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