GreenNotes
GSNN Executive Director Serves as Guest Editor for Learning by Design Publication
Dr. Jennifer Seydel, Executive Director for Green Schools National Network, served as a guest editor for the Fall 2020 issue of Dialogues, a research journal published by Learning By Design. The issue explored the future of education design through a sustainability...
The Science of Stress and the Power of Resilience: Equipping Leaders in Education to Restore Calm Amid the Chaos of COVID-19
By. Caitlin Suginaka and Anna Rowe Educators are facing unprecedented stress in 2020. As a result, burnout in the field of education is a serious cause for concern. No matter how severe or mundane your personal stress load has been, the collective stress we're all...
Creating Space for Culturally Responsive Teaching at Common Ground High School
By. Candi Fulcher Each morning students wake up, prepare themselves for the day, and pack up all that they are to come to school. Everywhere they go, students bring along what defines them – their culture, identity, community, and family. As educators, it’s important...
Stereotype and Bias in Education
By. Stephanie Itle-Clark Reprinted with permission from Green Teacher #120, Summer 2019. Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.
Giving Tuesday 2020
December 1, 2020 will mark the eighth year for GivingTuesday – a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. In a very short time, GivingTuesday has revolutionized year-end giving and transformed it into...
Race in America: A Counselor-Educator’s Approach to Culturally Relevant Teaching
By. Qiana Spellman, Ed.M. As educators, we often find ourselves searching for ways to make students’ educational experiences more valuable. We contemplate how to create new initiatives, which programs we can enhance, or what classes we can improve. This is especially...
There’s More to Our Lives: Reflecting on the Materials We Select to “Culturally Relevantize” Our Curricula
By. Shamari Reid I arrived late. As a non-native New Yorker, I had confused the train schedules and platforms yet again. Just as I did on my first day living in New York City, I got on the express train when I should’ve boarded the local. I was going to be late. And...
You Can’t Be Culturally Responsive Without Being Responsive
By. Dr. Rachael Mahmood When I first learned about multicultural education in college, I was very excited to start including my students’ backgrounds in the lessons I taught. I, too, come from cultures that aren’t often included in curricular stories or...
Restorative Discipline: Classroom Management for Equity and Justice
By. Heather Cunningham, Ph.D. This past summer, many people in the U.S. and worldwide became more aware of the grave injustices Black Americans face on a daily basis. This awakening has led many educators to ask themselves, “What can I do personally to make my...
Merging Math and Project-Based Learning in a Virtual Classroom
By. Sanch Lawrence I vividly remember my last in-person class before COVID-19 upended school as we know it. It was March 13, 2020, the day before Pi day. I was teaching a lesson on simplifying a rational expression to my eleventh-grade Algebra 2 students at Clara...