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BALTIMORE BALTIMORE CITYCITY
PUBLIC PUBLIC SCHOOLSSCHOOLS
GREEN SCHOOL WORKGROUP: MEETING 2 Green Ambassador
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For additional information: Joanna Pi-Sunyer
Green Schools CoordinatorBaltimore City Public Schools
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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[list here responses from assessment]
School Survey: Current green physical features8
[list here responses from assessment]
School Survey: Future green programs
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[list here responses from assessment]
School Survey: Future green physical features10
[list here responses from assessment]
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
Green School Awards17
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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