I hope everyone is doing well. I just got back from the annual USA Coordinators Conference in Cleveland and have some major changes to the Project WET program to tell you about.

Biggest news:

Project WET Guide 2.0 has been discontinued and is no longer available.

It is being replaced by 4 smaller, topical guides that will be rolling out beginning at the end of 2023.

• Foundations in Water Literacy. 12 of the most used activities. Due end of 2023
• Water & Earth Ecosystems. 22 activities. Due in 2024
• Ecosystems & Human Health (Water is Life). 23 activities. Due in 2024
• Management & Culture (Nature vs Nurture), 22 activities. Due in 2024 or 2025.

These guides will run about $20 each. Project WET is looking toward educators looking at topic based professional development courses and that’s what brought on this change.

Move to The WELL

• The current WETconnect online digital platform is transforming into The WELL (Water Education Learning Library)
• The minimum subscription to get access to the learning library is $40/year. A guide and online training is included in the $100/year subscription.
• This is a huge change! Note you will not have to purchase a subscription to take an in-person training or access the educator portal once the new guides are out. 

What does this mean for you? A few things…

• Workshops will have to be scheduled for 2024, after the new Fundamentals guides come out. 
• The website Portal for Guide 2.0 will remain in place and isn’t getting removed. So, if you have your 2.0 guide with your access code (inside front cover), you’ll still have access to all of the resources and the printable pdf student copy pages that live there.

Online training is now available for educators interested in the Project WET curriculum. If you’re a formal educator, an informal educator, or a parent who’d like to use the award winning curriculum with your children, this is for you.

This training will take the place of the usual 6 hour workshop required to use the WET Guide and Activities. This is a self-paced online training, so you can do it whenever you have time. You’ll only pay for the guide and shipping to you which costs $40. If you are in Greenville County, we have funds to provide the guide at no cost, so the training will be free for you.

The link to the training is http://online-training.projectwet.org/guide-training/ 

At some point it should ask you for an access code. You should use 212P25 in order to link your course to your South Carolina state coordinator.

We’ll work together when applicable since you obviously won’t be using these activities in your classroom right now. I’ve had folks do an activity for family and send a video or just review activities and come up with a lesson plan. We can be flexible!