GreenNotes
Empowering Students to Change the World with the Grand Challenges for Engineering
By. Cynthia Burt, Associate Principal, Tesla STEM High School Tesla STEM High School, located in Redmond, Washington within the Lake Washington School District, aims to inspire, educate, and innovate students, preparing them to enter higher education STEM...
Using Grand Challenges as a Framework to Change the World
By. Dr. Jimmie Cave and Lauren Kelly, The STEM Academy at Bartlett, and Peter Ulrich, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools Opening its doors in 2013, The STEM Academy at Bartlett is a public school in Savannah, Georgia that provides an innovative and rigorous...
Kearny High School Has Sustainability at Core of Engineering, Innovation, and Design Track
By. Nicole Grucky, Project Coordinator, Strategic Energy Innovations Kearny High School’s School of Engineering, Innovation, and Design (EID) in San Diego, California has partnered with environmental nonprofit Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) since 2013 to...
From Stems to STEM
By. Lauren Madden and Courtney McGovern Reprinted with permission from Green Teacher #108, Winter 2016. Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.
GSNN Educator’s Toolbox: Professional Development, Resources, Grants, and Awards for October
Professional Development Be a Catalyst for Change…Become a Green Schools National Network Member The green schools movement is the most critical education reform initiative of our time. Through the Green Schools National Network (GSNN) membership program, you can show...
GSNN Educator’s Toolbox Fall 2018 Catalyst Edition: Professional Development, Resources, Grants, and Awards
Professional Development 2019 Green Schools Conference and Expo Call for Proposals is Open! The Green Schools Conference and Expo (GSCE) is now accepting session proposals for the 2019 conference, to be held April 8 - 9, 2019 in St. Paul, Minnesota in partnership with...
Choosing the Future: Growing Magnet Programs and Environmental Stewards in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
By. Amanda Childress Starting this school year, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is launching two new Environmental STEM magnet programs. Our goal is to create an option for students to begin their environmental stewardship journeys as kindergartners at...
Helios New School: Where Social and Emotional Learning is Much More than a Program
By. David DenHartog and Patti Wilczek Helios New School, located in Sunnyvale, California, is dedicated to high standards around social-emotional learning (SEL) and to integrating SEL into all aspects of the school. Serving 150 K-8 students who have been...
From Sit Spots to Skits: Fostering Empathy and Compassion through Place-Based Education
By. Tom Stonehocker The world is a big place, and for many of us it’s difficult to fathom how the Earth’s natural systems and cycles function on a global scale. What happens when environmental education becomes so broad it starts to become less relatable and...
Sustainable Well-Being: Green Schools and Social-Emotional Thriving
By. Jonathan Cloughesy and Hunter Gehlbach The 2018 winter that produced record discontent with “bomb cyclones” and recurring late season nor’easters from New England to Washington D.C. has turned into an inglorious summer with California, Colorado, and much of...