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GSNN Educator’s Toolbox: Events, Professional Development, Resources, Grants, and Awards for November 2019
Events and Competitions 2020 Green Schools Conference and Expo The eleventh annual Green Schools Conference and Expo will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon, March 2 – 4, 2020. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from and network with...
Roots of Diversity: Growing Culturally Significant Plants in the Classroom
By. Allan Foster Reprinted with permission from Green Teacher #81, Summer 2007. Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.
Support the Green Schools Movement this #GivingTuesday
Mark your calendar for GivingTuesday - a global day of giving - on December 3, 2019. This annual event celebrates our collective capacity to do good, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. This year, we are...
Transforming Green and Sustainable Schools Curriculum Using Ethnic Studies Pedagogy
By. Jessica Diaz, Sara Diaz-Montejano, Connie Lau, and Francisco McCurry, Environmental Charter Schools Historically, mainstream environmentalism has informed environmental movements, such as the green schools movement. Yet, mainstream environmentalism has roots in...
Global Green Education at Centreville Elementary School
By. Josh Douds, Centreville Elementary School Developing Ethical and Global Citizens is what teachers and schools are tasked with at Fairfax County Public Schools. It is one of the five Portrait of a Graduate skills we hope to instill in our students by the time they...
Celebrating Diversity is Not Enough
By. Susan Santone Celebrate diversity: This familiar phrase invites us to find joy in our uniqueness, inspiring many a workshop, T-shirt, poster, and bumper sticker. But there’s one thing diversity isn’t: a solution to educational inequities. That takes structural...
GSNN Educator’s Toolbox: Events, Professional Development, Resources, Grants, and Awards for October 2019
Events and Competitions 2020 Green Schools Conference and Expo The eleventh annual Green Schools Conference and Expo will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon, March 2 – 4, 2020. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from and network with...
Butterflies and Biomimicry
By. Karen McDonald Reprinted with permission from Green Teacher #99, Spring 2013. Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.
Submit Your Nomination for the 2020 Best of Green Schools Awards
Green Schools National Network is excited to partner again with the Center for Green Schools at USGBC to co-present the Best of Green Schools 2020. The Best of Green Schools celebrates the hard work being done—by people, schools, campuses, and organizations—to...
Bringing Biomimicry to Oak Park: One Approach to Integrating Biomimicry into the K-12 Curriculum
By. Winnie Litten, Oak Park High School I first fell in love with biomimicry while attending a county-wide science leadership meeting in February 2017. I was there in my capacity as science department chair at Oak Park High School in California’s Oak Park Unified...
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