GreenNotes

This article about the March 2020 Virginia Beach City Public Schools site seminar is authored by Tim Cole, Sustainability Officer for Virginia Beach City Public Schools This coming April, Pharrell Williams will host the second annual Something In The Water (SITW)...

By. Dr. Andrée Grey There’s no question that real work and research makes for more engaging learning. That’s never more obvious than when we put students at the center of a problem in a place that evokes curiosity and creativity for fieldwork. In Encinitas Union...

By. Hillary Wackman How can you care about what you don’t know? This is a fundamental question for K-12 educators who hope to foster stewardship of the natural world in an already packed curriculum. At the School of Environmental Studies (SES), we operate with the...

By. Amy Meuers, National Youth Leadership Council Despite recent civic action by young people, a June 2018 report by the Democracy Project doesn't shed a positive light on the state of our Union. Democracy is facing its most significant challenge of recent years....

By. Jennifer Gaddis and Melissa Terry John Dewey, the famed Progressive Era educator, was convinced that food held the potential to teach children about more than just nutrition. He saw school gardens as a pedagogically powerful platform for connecting children to...

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...

By. Constance Flanagan, Erin Gallay, and Ethan Lowenstein “This is me, I'm giving back to my community, bettering it. I should keep this up. I go home and started planting trees. Worked with my neighbors, they came out cause they found it interesting that I was doing...

By. Susan A. Abravanel “High-quality, school-based civic learning fosters civic knowledge, skills, and attitudes; promotes civic equality; builds 21st Century skills; improves school climate and lowers school drop-out rates.” (Guilfoile and Delander, 2014, p. 5) For...