What is Yosemite Institute's Core Educational Framework (CEF)?

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The Core Educational Framework was created to support YI's overall mission and to maintain the highest possible standards within the field of environmental education. The three broad themes of the core curriculum are:

Developing an awareness of place is fundamental to understanding how we interact with our environments. What is Yosemite's climate? What is its geography and geology? What are the habitats and the plants and animals that live here? How is Yosemite changing?

What are the unique features, processes and people that make Yosemite National Park a unique place? What are National Parks and how are they different from other urban, rural and suburban places?

Interconnections

How are things related and connected? The study of interconnections encompasses cycles and the flow of energy and matter, as well as human interactions with natural ecosystems. How the physical, biological and cultural aspects of place are interrelated leads us to understand our own place and role in our environments.

Stewardship

What is our responsibility to places, other cultures, communities, ecosystems and earth? What is stewardship and service? What informed actions can you take that will sustain our resources and future generations? What is sustainability?

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