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GREEN SCHOOL WORKGROUP: MEETING 2 Green Ambassador

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For additional information: Joanna Pi-Sunyer

Green Schools CoordinatorBaltimore City Public Schools

jpi-sunyer@bcps.k12.md.us443-642-4542

Today’s Goals2

Goals:What do we want in our new school? Review the survey.What partners are involved in making schools green?What are the Green, Healthy Smart Challenge grants?What is the MAEOE Green School Award?What are the Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards? What are the connections between building design, operations, programs and curriculum?

Workgroup Purpose and Goals

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Purpose: To advocate for green initiatives that contribute to a healthier learning environment and increased educational opportunities.

Goals: To influence the design of this school in ways that support the community’s priorities for sustainability. Support MD Environmental Literacy Standards. Be a bridge to the design team. Begin or expand current green practices. Seek Green School Award.

Participants & Ambassadors4

Participants: students, teachers, staff, students, parents, partners and community members interested in sustainability

Ambassadors: volunteers passionate about sustainability and trained to facilitate the workgroups

Green schools…. 5

Help kids:HearSeeBreatheMoveThink Feel

And: Are designed,

built and operated to be great buildings

Reduce our environmental impact

Promote the health of students, staff, teachers & the community

Steps

Decide what you have and want – e.g. a garden, a utility kiosk, an outdoor classroom, food education spaces

Understand the design process – know when you can influence the design

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Engage your design team – ask questions, tell them what you want and they can incorporate your ideas

Plan for now and the future – build your team for today and when your new school opens

School Survey: Current green programs

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School Survey: Current green physical features8

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School Survey: Future green programs

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School Survey: Future green physical features10

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Partners: City Schools11

Engagement – Green Schools Network

Teaching & Learning Facilities Design & Construction

• Operations & Maintenance• Health & Safety

Food & Nutrition• Learning to Work• Great Kids Farm• Service Learning

School Support Networks

Partners: External12 Partners (sample):

American Institute of Architects Baltimore

Audubon Society Patterson Park Baltimore City Dept of Public Works Baltimore City Dept of Recreation and

Parks Baltimore City Office of Sustainability Baltimore Community Foundation Baltimore Ecosystem Study BioEYES/Carnegie Institution for Science Blue Water Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chesapeake Bay Trust Civic Works Irvine Nature Center Maryland Environmental Health Network Maryland Association of Environmental

& Outdoor Education Parks & People Foundation US Green Building Council

Professional Development:Living ClassroomsBaltimore Ecosystem StudyIrvine Nature CenterUniversity of Maryland

Green, Healthy, Smart Challenge Grants

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Totals:114 schools 296 grants!

Gilmor – recycling team

Highlandtown #215 – building bird houses for Marshy Point State Park

Hilton – outdoor classroom & orchard

Roland Park – schoolyard green map

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Federal Hill Prep – living wall & air quality

Moravia Park – recyclinghttps://vimeo.com/90901324

Montessori – bicycle-powered blender

Cross Country – student-built solar oven

Thomas Jefferson – environmental education

lesson matrix

Guilford – schoolyard designArmistead Gardens – tree planting

Tunbridge – Nature Art

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Green School Awards: MAEOE

Why be a certified Green School? Academic achievement Interaction with nature Health effects on social, emotional,

cognitive and physical development Development of a 21st century

workforce Importance of environmental

literacy and engagement Stewardship Recertify every 4 years

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A state-wide nonprofit educational association that runs the Maryland Green Schools Awards

Program

$750 stipend per year for two years to a

teacher who leads the application!!

Green School Awards: MAEOE

Objective 1 – Systemic sustainability • Curriculum and instruction – environmental issue instruction with at least

one example per grade level• Professional development (PD) - all staff is aware of application, and at

least 10% of staff have participated in environmental education PD• School-wide environmental behavior change (not required) – e.g.,

electronic newsletters, task lamps, integrated pest management• Celebration – at least one school-wide, annual event

Objective 2 – Student-driven sustainability practices – 2 actions in at least 4 of categories: water, energy, solid waste, habitat, structures for environmental learning, transportation, healthy school environment

Objective 3 – Community partnerships, awards and special recognition

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Public Schools Academy for College and Career

Exploration Augusta Fells Savage Institute for

Visual Arts Baltimore Montessori Public Charter

School Benjamin Franklin High City Neighbors Charter School Commodore John Rodgers

Elementary/Middle Cross Country Elementary/Middle Curtis Bay Elementary Federal Hill Prep Elementary George W.F. McMechen High Green Street Academy Hilton Elementary Independence High John Eager Howard Elementary Highlandtwon #215

Elementary/Middle

Baltimore’s Green Schools

22 Baltimore City Public Schools and 6 Independent schools

Mount Washington Elementary Patterson Park Public Charter Roland Park

Elementary/Middle The Green School of Baltimore Thomas Jefferson

Elementary/Middle Thomas Johnson

Elementary/Middle WEB Dubois High

Independent Schools Baltimore Lab School Calvert School Catholic High School St. Elizabeth School St. Casimir School Waldorf School of Baltimore

What is Environmental Education?

To enable students to make decisions and take actions that create and maintain an optimal relationship between themselves and the environment

To preserve and protect the unique natural resources of Maryland, particularly those of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.

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Maryland State Department of Educationwww.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/programs/environment.html

Climbing the Environmental Literacy LadderCapacity for personal and collective action and civic

participation

Problem solving and critical thinking skills

Attitudes of appreciation and concern for the environment

Knowledge and understanding of human and natural systems and processes

General awareness of the relationship between the environment and human life

Campaign for Environmental Literacy

www.fundee.org/facts/envlit/whatisenvlit.htm

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Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards

1. Environmental Issues • Environmental Issue Investigation• Action Component

2. Interactions of Earth’s Systems• Earth Systems• Systems Thinking

3. Flow of Matter and Energy• Conservation of Matter within Earth

Systems• Energy Distribution through Earth

Systems• Interaction of Physical Systems and the

Biosphere

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State law requires that students graduating are environmentally literate and that school systems integrate environmental education in all grades

Next Generation Science Standards: National voluntary

standards with topics including energy, nature,

climate, sustainability and the earth

Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards, continued4. Populations, Communities and Ecosystems

• Cycling of Matter and Energy• Population Dynamics• Community and Ecosystem Dynamics• Stability in Populations, Communities and Ecosystems• Diversity

5. Humans and Natural Resources• Human Impact on Natural Processes• Human Impact on Natural Resources

6. Environmental Health• Natural Changes and Human Health• Human-Induced Changes and Human Health• Hazards and Risk Analysis

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Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards, continued7. Environment and Society

• Environmental Quality• Individual and Group Actions and the Environment• Cultural Perspectives and the Environment• Political Systems and the Environment• Economics and Environment• Technology and Environment

8. Sustainability• Intergenerational Responsibility• Interconnectedness of Systems • Influence of Economic Systems on Sustainability• Influence of Social and Cultural Systems on Sustainability• Limits of Ecological Systems• Action Component

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Next meeting

Who else should be here? When shall we meet? How do our priorities

affect the school design? Are our priorities reflected

in the feasibility study and/or concept design?

Who is communicating with the architect/engineer team?

How can we begin the Green School Awards application?

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