Sustainability in the Curriculum and Student Engagement

Room: 204
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm

TreePeople will share how it engages school communities in the green schoolyard design process while gathering their input to help shape their schoolyard as we work with parents, teachers, administrators, students and parents to collaboratively envision a green schoolyard.

This session will also cover the curricular components that we bring to schools through a set of lesson plans designed to educate students about the schoolyard renovation over the course of three lessons starting with tree biology continuing on to measuring temperature on their campus and culminating in a schoolyard design exercise.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key school community stakeholders in participatory green schoolyard design.
• Create a green schoolyard school community engagement plan that invites the school community to contribute their lived experiences and goals to the design process for their schoolyard.
• Provide a rationale for transforming the landscape at their school site and how it can integrate into their school’s culture.
• Create a vision for how to incorporate a green schoolyard into the curriculum, including the outline of potential lesson ideas

Speakers:

Eric Wilson, Green Infrastructure Program Manager, TreePeople
Bertilla Baudiniere, Green Infrastructure Design Principal, TreePeople
Mary Hillemeier, Policy & Research Senior Coordinator, TreePeople
Saira Singh, School Greening Education Coordinator, TreePeople

Speaker Photos and Bio’s Coming Soon!

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