GreenNotes
Adaptation in the Time of COVID-19: Making Big Decisions to Ensure Equitable Access to Virtual Learning
By. Dr. Kay Sturm As I write this, teachers are preparing for the unknown landscape of virtual or hybrid education in the 2020 – 2021 school year. For many teachers, summer was cut short from an average two-month to a hopeful one-month reprieve, with preparations,...
Reimagining the Potential for Virtual Learning: Lessons Learned from a Place-Based, Experiential High School Program
By. Andy Barker As Project Director of an immersive, place-based, experiential high school program, I was as unprepared as anyone for school to shift online last spring when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Vermont. I often say that our program, the Burlington City...
Welcome Back! A letter from our Executive Director
‘Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.’ –Stephen Hawking Back to school this fall is, well, complex. There have been years when I’ve pulled up some of my previous “back to school” letters and made a few tweaks. That’s not possible this year. We are in...
Changing the Perspective on Implicit Bias in Education
By. Al Johnson There’s an elephant in the room that we need to talk about. It’s called implicit bias and it’s alive and well in our nation’s schools. In a nutshell, implicit bias refers to attitudes and stereotypes we unconsciously hold about people, ideas, and...
Social Justice and Language Arts
By. Christopher Greenslate Reprinted with permission from Green Teacher #80, Winter 2007. Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.
In Search of Culturally-Sensitive Sustainability Policies and Programs
By. Jill Buck Is the Green Schools Movement Equitable? I don’t believe that any group involved in the green schools movement is intentionally insensitive to communities in Environmental Justice (EJ) areas or food deserts. I do believe that leaders of the movement...
Centering Environmental Justice at the Core of Curriculum: Lessons Learned from Addressing Environmental Justice for a Sustainable Future
By. Kate Bartholomew I’ll admit. I am a neophyte right now. While I’ve been an educator for over 20 years, last year was my first teaching ninth- and tenth-grade science at New Roots Charter School in Ithaca, New York. Before that, my teaching career was spent in a...
The Time has Come for Culturally Relevant Leadership
By. Dr. Floyd D. Beachum Systemic Racism Many people in the United States are calling for the examination and elimination of systemic racism. I define systemic racism here as racism that is historical, individual, institutional, and cultural. In the United States,...
Doubling Down on Coronavirus: How One Pennsylvania School District Facilities Manager Plans to Approach COVID-19 in the Fall
By. Frederick Remelius When my good friend Tracy Enger at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) referred me, a 40-year veteran of facilities management, to do an article for Green Schools National Network about how I planned to handle COVID-19 at...
Plastic Grass Isn’t Greener
By. Rochelle Rubinstein Reprinted with permission from Green Teacher #118, Winter 2019. Learn more about Green Teacher’s nonprofit magazine and books at www.greenteacher.com.
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