By. Patricia Fryc, Colorado Fire Up Your Feet Outreach Specialist   The Safe Routes to School National Partnership sponsors a program called Fire Up Your Feet for elementary and middle schools nationally.  The Fire Up Your Feet program promotes physical activity...

By: Christine Koester, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency   It is a common scene across the country – before the final bell rings to mark the end of the school day, parents in their cars form a line near the school...

By. Ronna Sable Weber, Executive Director of the National School Transportation Association   Each day, over 26 million students ride over 480,000 yellow buses to and from school in pursuit of their education. Ensuring that those school buses are the most...

By. Elise Houghton Reprinted with permission from the Green Teacher publication Teaching about Climate Change (http://greenteacher.com/books/climate-change/).  Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.

No Teacher Left Inside Institute Provides Authentic Learning in the Outdoors   Quality professional development is vital to an educator’s work.  I say this from the perspective of a former science teacher and principal.  As a teacher, I sought out workshops that...

No Teacher Left Inside: Using the Environment as a Context for Interdisciplinary Learning By. Skylar Primm, High Marq Environmental Charter School   As a teacher, I take my summers off from the classroom. However, my fellow teachers—and their families—know that...

By Cleary Vaughan-Lee   Have you ever considered your relationship to nature and how it might be influenced by the impacts of technology? This is a thought I explored recently with students at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California during their annual...

Teachers know that kids are more likely to get engaged with learning when the curriculum reflects their lives and experiences. But what do you do if you’re teaching ancient history to middle school students? It’s hard to imagine what could be less relevant to...

No Teacher Left Inside: Using the Environment as a Context for Interdisciplinary Learning   I grew up attending a week-long camp each summer. My parents would drop me off on Sunday afternoon and I would enter a room of gangly adolescents all waiting nervously to...