Great news! Over the next few months, I will be submitting the 2017 IMGC agenda for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) consideration to various professional organizations. The first certification approval came through this week, from the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP).
Professional CEUs can be useful to those who need continuing education to maintain their professional certifications. We are proud that the NALP recognizes the value of the sessions that we are offering to Master Gardeners and professionals working in the landscaping industry.
The 2017 International Master Gardener Conference is approved for Landscape Industry Certified recertification at 1 CEU per hour of instruction attended.
With three keynote presentations and eight concurrent session classes representing 12 hours of instruction, you can earn up to 12 Landscape Industry Certified CEUs with the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
For more information on the National Association of Landscape Professionals recertification, please visit the NALP Recertification Center at landscapeprofessionals.org.
I would like to recommend a speaker for the conference. I recently attended the Upper Midwest Master Gardening conference in Wisconsin dells Wisconsin. Jeanne hilinske-Christiansen 262-767-2929. Jeanne.hilinskeChristiansen@ces.uwex.edu gave a presentation on the process of applying and participating in the all America selection winners display garden. The garden is located at the Kenosha Wisconsin county center. The master gardeners have participated in 2014 2015 and now 2016 years. We could readily see what they were learning and teaching and how the master gardeners were improving the process. It was very interesting creative and fun. I attended the international conference I council bluffs. This is of a caliber you would be interested in.
Great! We have already finalized our speakers for the 2017 International Master Gardener Conference, but I will pass Jeanne’s name and contact information on to the next IMGC organizers.