Essex teacher wins grant for environmental education

Courtney Rohde, an earth science, animal behavior and physical science teacher at Chesapeake High School in Essex, is one of 19 high school educators in the country to be awarded an environmental education grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation and the Weather Channel. The award, announced Wednesday, is designed to bring environmental issues to the classroom. The grant allows Rohde to take two online graduate-level courses offered by the Environmental Education and Training Partnership through the University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point; the tuition credits are worth about $1,500. Rohde hopes to learn new ways to educate her students about the environmental issues they face locally and globally, according to the foundation.