United States
As an outreach educator for LEAF at the Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, I teach teachers how and why to bring their students into the woods. Most of the pieces here are part of that work. One piece is related to my favorite side gig. (See if you can spot it.)
Teaching is in my blood, but my heart belongs to words.
Informational writing with a technical focus
Audience: K-12 teachers. Purpose: Explain a complex concept so audience understands background of a product they use.
Audience: General public. Purpose: Summarize technical information about how the forest products industry plays a role in baseball bat production.
Informational writing with a general focus
Audience: Parents, grandparents, and early childhood educators. Purpose: Give ideas for how to help young children learn from nature in winter.
Audience: K-12 teachers. Purpose: Inform teachers how forest-based environmental education can meet non-academic student needs.
Personal narrative
Audience: Professional foresters. Purpose: A personal-interest story designed to showcase outreach being done by the LEAF Program.
Audience: General public. Purpose: A personal-interest story designed to help listeners feel connected to their public radio station.
Miscellany
Audience: Grand funding team from a professional forestry organization. Purpose: Persuade funders to support our project.
Audience: Natural resources educators. Purpose: Communicate strategies to increase forestry career interest among young people.
Audience: Secondary teachers. Purpose: Give adult learners information about what to expect from an online course.
Audience: K-12 teachers. Purpose: Make our professional events look fun and exciting and entice others to sign up for one.