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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:00am - 8:15am Breakfast Exhibit Hall
7:00am - 8:30am Breakfast Affiliate Group Meetings
| Title: | Breakfast with the EPA-Space is Limited |
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| Description: | Clean, Green, and Healthy Schools Stakeholder Session
EPA is reaching out to school and environmental health communities to hear your perspectives on environmental health in schools. EPA's stakeholder session is an opportunity for those working in, or closely with, schools to provide feedback on how we can better encourage healthier school environments for students and staff. |
| Location: | AgateABC, Hyatt Hotel |
| AgateABC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Tuesday 2/28 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM |
| Wednesday 2/29 7:15 AM - 8:30 AM |
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| Title: | GOING GREEN, WHILE STAYING IN THE BLACK: GREEN SOLUTIONS THAT MAKE CENTS! |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | Is it possible to make Green commodity choices, and not pay more, even save? Join this session as we erase the myth that “Going Green” has to cost your school more. Explore a variety of product choices, allow your school to begin a Green initiative, or add to an existing Green program. |
| Presenter(s): | Duff Erholtz (National Joint Powers Alliance) |
| Location: | Min HallF, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 7:15 AM - 8:30 AM |
8:45am - 10:00am Breakout Sessions
| Title: | A Deeper Shade of Green: System-wide Sustainability |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | Join district sustainability leaders from across the US and learn to start or scale up your district-wide initiatives. Chicago, Montgomery County (MD), and Portland Public Schools discuss policies, incentives, accountability, successes, challenges and funny stories to move towards sustainability, increase morale, and save money. Lessons apply to any size district. |
| Presenter(s): | Karen Anderson (Montgomery County Public Schools), Nancy Bond (Portland Public Schools), Suzanne Carlson (Chicago Public Schools) |
| Location: | Capt7, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Becoming a Green School Division A Blueprint to a Sustainable Future |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management, Open Forum: |
| Description: | Virginia Beach City Public Schools has developed a holistic approach towards environmental sustainability. Find out how the following three goals are moving this school division of 15,000 employees and 70,000 students along this path.
1. Build environmentally sustainable buildings.
2. Integrate environmentally sustainable practices throughout the school division.
3. Educate the public. |
| Presenter(s): | Tim Cole (Virginia Beach City Public Schools) |
| Location: | MinHallD, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Benefits of Green Schools on Academic Achievement and Attitudes: A Research Approach |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in research and evaluation of student learning and best green school practices. |
| Description: | This session will present a collaborative research model for determining the effect of high performance, environmentally sound school buildings on k-12 student and faculty attitudes and behaviors as well as how they impact student academic achievement. Research methods as well as some preliminary data will be shared and discussed. |
| Presenter(s): | Billy Bennett (Eastern Kentucky University), Joe Chavez (Kenton County School District), Steve Kerlin (Northern Kentucky University) |
| Location: | MinHallE, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | CASDEM - Collaborating in CO for Energy Conservation and Environmental Stewardship |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Facility managers and teacher work together to use buildings, management practices, materials and supplies purchasing to teach about sustainability. |
| Description: | Leveraging the varied interests and experiences of Colorado School District Energy Managers, CASDEM serves to broaden awareness of its member districts in the successful implementation energy conservation and environmental stewardship practices. Representatives of districts will share their experiences and the value derived from their collaboration. |
| Presenter(s): | Jim Faes (Denver Public Schools), Stu Reeve (Poudre School District), Lee Smit (Douglas County School District), Craig Wright (CASDEM) |
| Location: | 710,712, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Connect Kids to Real Food by Creating Learning Gardens in Schools |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Place-based projects and practices that include, but are not limited to, school farms, forests, and gardens. |
| Description: | Case Study panel discussion facilitated by Kimbal Musk, Founder of The Kitchen restaurant and The Kitchen Community non-profit, with representatives from CU Denver's Learning Landscapes and Slow Food Denver on creating a Learning Garden at Schmitt Elementary in Denver. |
| Presenter(s): | Lois Brink (UC Denver School of Architecture and Planning and Learning Landscapes), Sara Brito (The Kitchen Community Non-Profit), Kimbal Musk (The Kitchen Community Non-Profit), Andy Nowak (Slow Food Denver), Travis Robinson (The Kitchen Community Non-Profit), Christopher Schooler (Center for Community Development UC Denver School of Architecture and Planning), Jaime Zaplatosch (Openlands) |
| Location: | Capt5, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Designing & Integrating a School Garden to Reconnect Students with the Roots of Food |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Place-based projects and practices that include, but are not limited to, school farms, forests, and gardens. |
| Description: | Panelists from Saint Martin (a Cristo Rey Network school) offer insight into designing and creating a unique and sustainable school garden. We share the project’s evolution and how it has been integrated into school culture and curriculum, including specific projects and summer internship program that connects urban students with agriculture. |
| Presenter(s): | Michelle Brickner (Saint Martin de Porres High School), Students Saint Martin Garden Interns (Saint Martin de Porres High School) |
| Location: | MinHallA, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Educating the Student Body |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Curriculum and support for physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. |
| Description: | Like a Peace Corps for Health, HealthCorps is a national service and peer mentoring initiative. Founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthCorps empowers high school students in underserved areas to make simple lifestyle changes. During this seminar you’ll experience our fun, experiential curriculum, developed by leading health and integrative medicine experts. |
| Presenter(s): | Shawn Hayes (HealthCorps, Inc.) |
| Location: | 112, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Facing the Future: Climate Change Connections and Solutions |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Environmental literacy and education for sustainability, as defined by local, state, and national standards, is integrated at all grade levels |
| Description: | This workshop appeals to teachers interested in environmental issues and enjoy using technology to reach students. Facing the Future Curriculum- Climate Change and Engaging Students Through Global Issues
Activities: Greenhouse gases, graph carbon dioxide trends, use probeware -measure, build, and report findings. Complimentary Facing the Future curriculum CD and teach on Monday. |
| Presenter(s): | Naomi Harper (WIll Rogers Middle School) |
| Location: | 702, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Global Climate Change Meets Ecophobia |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Content areas are integrated by using environmental and sustainability topics as the integrating them. |
| Description: | What happens when we lay the weight of the world’s burdensome environmental problems on the shoulders of young children? We overwhelm them, scare them and alienate them from the natural world. We'll examine this problem using a variety of education media. |
| Presenter(s): | Dr. David Sobel (Antioch Graduate School of New England) |
| Location: | 601, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Greening NYC Public Schools: From Guidelines to Implementation |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | The NYC Green Schools Guide is a sustainable rating system specifically intended for K-12 schools developed by NYC School Construction Authority with Dattner Architects. It incorporates elements of LEED and CHPS and applies a high common performance benchmark between schools. PS/IS 276 and PS 79 are recent case studies. |
| Presenter(s): | Richard Eiden (NYC School Construction Authority), Daniel Heuberger (DATTNER ARCHITECTS) |
| Location: | 708, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Greening Your School with Service Learning |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Teacher and leaders provide opportunities for students to make local and global connections. |
| Description: | Has your curriculum turned green? Have you discovered how service learning promotes high quality academics and encourages youth initiative and purposeful action? Whether you are new or experienced in green schools concepts, this lively interactive session provides you with ways to infuse classroom content with the Five Stages of Service Learning. The outcome |
| Presenter(s): | Cathryn Kaye (CBK Associates) |
| Location: | 108, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Green Procurement: Developing an Effective Environmentally Preferably Purchasing Program |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: |
| Description: | Participants will learn how to develop an effective environmental purchasing policy (EPP) that protects student health and the environment while staying within budget. Key strategies, including a case study review and tips on overcoming common obstacles will be discussed, giving participants the tools to develop an EPP for their school. |
| Presenter(s): | Mark Rossolo (Greenguard) |
| Location: | 711, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Green Schools: Youth Engagement, Community Partnerships & Environmental Action |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Long-term partnerships with experts that support and enhance sustainable systems. |
| Description: | Building community support for your green school project is essential to any project's success. Join us to learn how Earth Force creates coalitions of school districts, universities, CBOs, corporations, and government to support schoolwide change and stimulate youth engagement in green school projects. |
| Presenter(s): | Liz Henry (Earth Force, Inc.) |
| Location: | Capt6, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Happiness, the Good Life, and Expanding Awareness in the Green Schoolyard |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Outdoor experiences and fieldwork support learning about complex systems that connect humans with all aspects of the natural world |
| Description: | The panel will present their recent findings of how green schoolyards support youth development of happiness, play, and the development of students’ and teachers' social, social, emotional, and intellectual development. Results will be presented in the context of education as a fulfilling and beautiful process for students and for teachers. |
| Presenter(s): | Louise Chawla (College of Architecture and Planning, Univ of CO), Kelly Keena (Achieve Academy, Mapleton Public Schools), Illene Pevec (Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design), Emily Stanley (Jemicy School) |
| Location: | AgateABC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Healthy Food Makes for a Happy Lunch |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Healthy eating programs that utilize locally sourced and whole foods. |
| Description: | A Green and Healthy school must provide the child with a healthy learning evironment while providing their bodies with sound nutrition. Our session will describe how we achieved this while incorporating local produce, honey and organic farm eggs into our lunch program. Our meals are cooked from scratch and our breads are whole grain. |
| Presenter(s): | Debra Chapman (Odyssey Charter School) |
| Location: | Min HallF, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | High Performance Schools: Think/Act, Globally/Locally |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | Collaborative for High Performance Schools provides a national voice and local choice for schools and districts across the country to realize the benefits of becoming healthy, green schools. Speakers will present case studies of educational facilities from around the country, examining successful strategies and lessons learned. |
| Presenter(s): | William Orr (Collaborative for High Performance Schools) |
| Location: | 703, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | How Student Environmental Clubs are Making an Impact |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Real world service learning projects that explore solutions to local problems and issues and teach 21st century skills. |
| Description: | This session features the measurable impacts that student environmental clubs have had on their schools' bottom line saving money, energy, water and reducing waste going into the landfill. We'll give you the inspiration, resources and tools to help start or further your environmental club to produce measurable, tangible results. |
| Presenter(s): | Matt Lappe (Alliance for Climate Education) |
| Location: | 706, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Integrating Technology in the PE Classroom |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Curriculum and support for physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. |
| Description: | Research shows that supporting students in their quest for academic and overall success while achieving health and fitness is now being provided through technology. Our goal is to capture, store and deliver wellness information while providing students and teachers with a wellness portfolio that will enhance their fitness levels and academic success |
| Presenter(s): | Jennifer Ohlson (Interactive Health Technologies) |
| Location: | MinHallG, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Project Learning Tree’s GreenSchools! Program |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Real world service learning projects that explore solutions to local problems and issues and teach 21st century skills. |
| Description: | Use Service-Learning Projects to Turn Your School into a GreenSchool!
Learn more about Project Learning Tree’s (PLT) GreenSchools! program – an innovative student driven program that connects Project Learning Tree (PLT) with service learning, professional development, and environmental action. In partnership with Learn & Serve America and the USDA Forest Service, students are able to bring about positive environmental changes to their school and community through service-learning projects. Educators and students will leave with resource materials and implementation ideas for turning their school into a model green school. |
| Presenter(s): | James McGirt (Project Learning Tree), Al Stenstrup (American Forest Foundation, Project Learning Tree) |
| Location: | MinHallB, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Putting Environmental Sustainability Back Into Education |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Environmental literacy and education for sustainability, as defined by local, state, and national standards, is integrated at all grade levels |
| Description: | Success stories from across the nation demonstrate that strategically-designed curriculum and classroom instruction prepares students to solve 21st Century environmental sustainability issues as they achieve proficiency in state content standards. Working together, we can help teachers, schools, and education agencies integrate these approaches into every student’s K-12 learning experiences. |
| Presenter(s): | Gerald Lieberman (State Education and Environment Roundtable) |
| Location: | 607, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Revolutionizing School Lunch through Healthy Nutrition & School Partnership |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Healthy eating programs that utilize locally sourced and whole foods. |
| Description: | Revolution Foods serves nutritious and tasty lunches (120,000+/day) to over 600 schools across the country. This session will present several case studies on how Rev Foods works and how a strong school partnership can transform school nutrition programs. Of course, there will be tasty food to sample during the session! |
| Presenter(s): | Patrick Donovan (Rev Foods), Amy Klein (Rev Foods) |
| Location: | 705, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Seeds of Environmental Literacy: Experiencing Nature at the Child Care Center |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Content areas are integrated by using environmental and sustainability topics as the integrating them. |
| Description: | Maryland children must become environmentally literate. Child care centers are important for e-lit because children spend much time there. Transforming bleak yards into delightful nature space, through collaboration of governments, business, and academe linked with curriculum training for teachers, administrators, and parents, using NAAEE Guidelines. Case study, discussion. |
| Presenter(s): | Karen Kelly Mullin (Willow Oak Group), Mary Rivkin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)) |
| Location: | Quartz AB, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Selling Sustainability: Using Financial, Academic, and Environmental Performance Data to Drive Green Initiatives |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Facility managers and teacher work together to use buildings, management practices, materials and supplies purchasing to teach about sustainability. |
| Description: | Gaining district approval for green projects and initiatives requires buy-in from key administrators and stakeholders who carefully weigh the data and experiences of their peers alongside the research findings and claims of outside sources. Get the administrators’ perspective, experience-based insights, and real-world data on sustainable school projects from across America. |
| Presenter(s): | John Gayetsky (ASBO International, Dublin, OH), Erin Green (Greendale School District), Kathy Prosser (ASBO International, Dublin, OH) |
| Location: | 110, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | So You Want to be a USDoE Green Ribbon/ Green Print School? |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | Hear how the EPA can provide guidelines and assistance to schools going Green, and how one Arizona charter school is working with the State to gain US Dept of Education Green Ribbon designation. Andrea Falken, Director of the USDoE Green Ribbon Program, will discuss national goals of this program and state initiatives to meet it. |
| Presenter(s): | Kara Belle (US Environmental Protection Agency), Mark Sorensen (The STAR School) |
| Location: | Granite A,B,C, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | The Florida Green School Awards Program |
| Core Practice: | Open Forum: |
| Description: | In 2009, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Florida Department of Education (DOE) and a host of community partners, recognized the environmental achievements of students, teachers, classes, schools and school districts through the first annual Florida Green School Awards. |
| Presenter(s): | Tim Center (Sustainable Florida) |
| Location: | 704, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | The Places We Eat: Leveraging the Power of Design to Transform Childhood Wellness |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Curriculum and support for physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. |
| Description: | Advocates for local, sustainable, and nutritious school lunches are gradually transforming school menus across the country. Meanwhile, the places we create frequently convey mixed messages to our children. An architect and a pediatrician offer a fresh perspective on the role that the built environment plays in framing our children's attitudes towards healthful choices. |
| Presenter(s): | Steve Davis (VMDO Architects, P.C.), Matt Trowbridge (University of Virginia School of Medicine) |
| Location: | MinHallC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | Two Angry Moms |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Healthy eating programs that utilize locally sourced and whole foods. |
| Description: | In the face of a national children's health crisis, Two Angry Moms asks: What is food environment like at school and how is it impacting kids' learning, behavior and health? See what happens when fed-up moms start a grass-roots revolution! Find out what you can do in your own community. |
| Presenter(s): | Amy Kalafa (Two Angry Moms) |
| Location: | 605, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| Title: | You Can't Do It Alone: Making the Most of Partnerships |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | Wisconsin Green Schools Network has learned that one organization can't do it all and schools can't do it alone. Learn how you can maximize efforts through a variety of organizational partners. In addition, learn about forming educational partnerships, such as NASA and 3M, so students can work with engineers, business owners, and other professionals in order to provide real world applications for learning. |
| Presenter(s): | Victoria Rydberg (Wisconsin Green Schools Network), Cheryl Schnell (Island City Research Academy), Sandy Vandervelden (Wisconsin Green Schools Network/Fox River Academy) |
| Location: | 603, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM |
10:15am - 11:30am Breakout Sessions
| Title: | Advancing Sustainability: Preparing Students for Greener Higher Education |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Environmental literacy and education for sustainability, as defined by local, state, and national standards, is integrated at all grade levels |
| Description: | Entering college, 64% of students expect to learn more about sustainability theory and practice. K-12 schools are credited with planting sustainability interests and demands. Greening K-12 schools will leverage this ‘sustainability transformation’ in society. In this workshop, we will explore the ways to integrate sustainability across the curriculum. |
| Presenter(s): | Paul Rowland (AASHE) |
| Location: | 707, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | A Green School Isn’t Actually Green...Without Whole-School Sustainability |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in research and evaluation of student learning and best green school practices. |
| Description: | If sustainability is not woven into a school’s facility, curriculum, and culture, is it really green? Using the results of a nation-wide study of green schools using a holistic approach to sustainability; we will explore the attributes, processes, resources, and champions vital to the establishment of whole-school sustainability programs. |
| Presenter(s): | Stephanie Barr (LEED AP BD+C), Brian Dunbar (Colorado State University), Katharine Leigh (Colorado State University) |
| Location: | 704, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Breathe Easy: Smarter Product Choices for Better IAQ |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | This session presents the alarming facts about chemical exposure in schools and how they impact children's health. Case studies identify pollutant sources and remedies and an IAQ management plan is created to assist in control of the school environment. Reliable tools for sourcing products will focus on third party certifications and avoidance of greenwashing. |
| Presenter(s): | Marilyn Black (GREENGUARD Environmental Institute) |
| Location: | Capt7, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Bridging the Gap: Bringing Together Content, Advocacy, and Community in a K-8 School |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Outdoor experiences and fieldwork support learning about complex systems that connect humans with all aspects of the natural world |
| Description: | Linking science content, field sampling, and community advocacy, 8th grade students at ECCS are analyzing student-collected data to communicate specific avenues for water quality improvement in the local watershed. This project is the culmination of an emergent vertically aligned K-8 water quality curriculum, developed with a local environmental nonprofit. |
| Presenter(s): | Stuart Miles (Evergreen Community Charter School) |
| Location: | 703, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Can integration of Standards, Foreign Language and Environmental Ed. Work? Ubetcha! |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Content areas are integrated by using environmental and sustainability topics as the integrating them. |
| Description: | Walk with us as we show you how our Foreign Language Department collaborated with the Environmental Education teacher using state science standards. This integration created a learning atmosphere that not only enhanced the student's science and language standards, but infused ownership and passion towards sustaining our environment. |
| Presenter(s): | Brooke Heimerl (Amana Academy K-8 Public Charter School) |
| Location: | Granite A,B,C, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Champaign Unit 4 School District: High Performance Design Across a District with Lea |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | With learning, sustainability, and energy performance as guiding design principles, join the school district design team to see the high performance results of Champaign Unit 4 SD’s capital improvement plan. An architect and engineer will share the sustainable strategies of the new Booker T. Washington STEM Elementary School. |
| Presenter(s): | Stuart Brodsky (Cannon Design), Keith Hammelman (Cannon Design) |
| Location: | 108, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Clubes Eco-Lógicos and Conexión Américas |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Environmental literacy and education for sustainability, as defined by local, state, and national standards, is integrated at all grade levels |
| Description: | Clubes Eco-Lógicos and Conexión Américas are programs tailored to helping Latino families by raising Latino students' awareness of sustainable development through community action while it expands on classroom study. In this presentation we discuss what it means, how is it structured and what can be done to increase parental engagement and student success among immigrant populations in a school with a STEM focus in the 21st century |
| Presenter(s): | Mateo de Valenzuela (CLACE), Marina La Grave (CLACE), Juliana Ospina Faughnan (STEM Prep Academy, Conexion Americas) |
| Location: | AgateABC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Do Green Schools Matter? Linking Practices to Student Achievement |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in research and evaluation of student learning and best green school practices. |
| Description: | This research project is a national survey of green schools that explores connections between green print benchmarks and student achievement using data from an online survey and standardized test scores. |
| Presenter(s): | Jason Abdilla (University of Colorado Denver), Hillary Mason (University of Colorado, Denver), Bryan Wee (University of Colorado Denver) |
| Location: | 601, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Embracing Sustainability in Tropical Mexico at El Pequeño Sol School |
| Core Practice: | Open Forum: |
| Description: | Pequeño Sol is a UNESCO school in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. The pillars of sustainability are embedded in their educational philosophy of providing opportunities to 1. contribute to ones community 2. understand one’s environment and 3. learn financial impacts. Join an interactive workshop of successes of a green school in Mexico. |
| Presenter(s): | Michelle Finchum (Emerald Planet Conservation Consulting) |
| Location: | Capt6, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Financing Your Green School |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | Green buildings improve student performance, reduce energy costs, and improve air quality, but how can schools afford the upgrades? Community development finance institutions provide insights into charter school financing, including debt, tax credits, power purchase agreements, and performance contracts. Real world examples illustrate benefits and costs of going green. |
| Presenter(s): | Jennifer Afdahl Rice (NCB Capital Impact), Melissa Malkin-Weber (Self-Help Credit Union) |
| Location: | MinHallC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Green From the Inside Out |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Outdoor experiences and fieldwork support learning about complex systems that connect humans with all aspects of the natural world |
| Description: | Green curriculum design allows schools to incorporate research based practices that increase student achievement and motivation. Participants in this workshop will examine an 11th grade curriculum created through a community partnership that resulted in a systemic approach to address the problem of an urban food desert and childhood obesity. |
| Presenter(s): | Mary Bohning (Harborside Academy), Dr. Jennifer Seydel (Green Schools National Network) |
| Location: | 705, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Greening Your IT Operations with EPEAT |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: |
| Description: | This session will introduce principles, approaches and tools to reduce the environmental impact of school and district IT operations. Topics include EPEAT, which identifies environmentally preferable products and helps schools qualify for the Green Ribbon recognition; the State Electronics Challenge, which provides no-cost support for electronics stewardship; and appropriate end-of-life management practices. |
| Presenter(s): | Eric Anderson (Metech Recycling), Sarah OBrien (EPEAT), Lynn Rubinstein (State Electronics Challenge) |
| Location: | 607, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Health Needs a Hero |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: |
| Description: | Health Needs a Hero is a powerful and inspirational documentary detailing the epidemic of childhood health issues. The objective is to bring people together who have the desire to make a difference in America's health - especially our children's lives - to a state of overall wellness, vitality and happiness. |
| Presenter(s): | Jennifer Ohlson (Interactive Health Technologies) |
| Location: | 605, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | How to Build Outdoor Classrooms: Resources and Partnerships |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | The recent explosion of interest in getting students outside to learn has left many wanting a "how to" guide for outdoor learning sites. Learn what works, get resources, and find out how to connect with people in your community who can help get students learning outside. |
| Presenter(s): | Sarah Gilbert (LEAF), Gretchen Marshall (LEAF) |
| Location: | Min HallF, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Inspiring Gen Z in Trashology and OMG |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Content areas are integrated by using environmental and sustainability topics as the integrating them. |
| Description: | Trashology 101 is an integrated curriculum that engages students in hands-on, student-driven waste reduction activities which change behaviors at school and home. One More Generation (OMG) is a non-profit that educates students about plastic pollution and introduces alternatives to eliminate our plastic dependency. |
| Presenter(s): | Jill Grotzinger (Experience Design Innovation Group LLC), Jim Ries (One More Generation) |
| Location: | 112, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Integrating STEM Education into Green Schools |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: STEM is used to educate students about green careers for a green economy. |
| Description: | In this session, presenters will discuss innovative approaches to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) into a environmental education curriculum. Harmony Public Schools (HPS), the largest charter school network in Texas, has a tradition of preparing students for challenges of the future particularly in STEM fields. |
| Presenter(s): | Staci Reimer (Harmony School of Nature and Athletics), Soner Tarim (Harmony Charter Schools) |
| Location: | 110, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Leveraging Partnerships: K12, Higher Education, and Industry Supported Education |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Facility managers and teacher work together to use buildings, management practices, materials and supplies purchasing to teach about sustainability. |
| Description: | Northshore School District, in partnership with McKinstry and Cascadia Community College, have created a unique educational experience that engages and inspires students about sustainability. This session will provide an overview of the program Environmental Technology & Sustainable Design, including highlights of partnerships and collaboration that has made the program successful. |
| Presenter(s): | Patty Anderson (McKinstry), Mel Oyler (Cascadia Community College), Jesse Sycuro (McKinstry), Mike Wierusz (North Shore SD) |
| Location: | 708, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | No Compromises: Combining High Academic Standards & Authentic Environmental Learning |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Content areas are integrated by using environmental and sustainability topics as the integrating them. |
| Description: | For four years straight, students at Common Ground -- the nation's oldest environmental charter high school, serving students from the City of New Haven -- have made dramatic gains on state tests. Learn how one school integrates high academic expectations and data-driven, standards-based planning with active, authentic environmental learning and leadership opportunities. |
| Presenter(s): | Liz Cox (Common Ground High School), Joel Tolman (Common Ground High School) |
| Location: | 706, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Operations Report Card: Turn Your School into a Grade “A” Campus |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | Where does your campus rank on the sustainability scale? How can you improve your energy efficiency, thermal comfort, visual comfort, indoor air quality, and acoustics? Find out with the Operations Report Card! Join the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) for an informative session on the Operations Report Card (ORC), a new online, interactive tool that benchmarks the current performance of existing schools, provides a report card of results and makes suggestions for improvement. Learn how to get students involved by using the ORC mobile phone app .This ORC session, geared toward both non-technical and technical professionals, will utilize real-time examples and case studies, and help you position your school to achieve recognition from the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools program. |
| Presenter(s): | Chip Lambert (Trane), William Orr (Collaborative for High Performance Schools), John Zinner (Zinner Consultants) |
| Location: | 710,712, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Planning for Environmental Literacy |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | State environmental literacy plans create a coordinated strategy to ensure all students become informed decision-makers about the environment. Join us to learn how collaborations across the country are making an impact through environmental literacy plans. Case studies, from Colorado and Kentucky, highlighting challenges and avenues of success for ensuring environmental literacy in all students will be discussed. |
| Presenter(s): | Katie Navin (Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education), Merin Roseman (Kentucky Environmental Education Council), Elizabeth Schmitz (Kentucky Environmental Education Council) |
| Location: | 702, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Run With US!: Olympian Athlete-Mentors and Student Health and Fitness |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Curriculum and support for physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. |
| Description: | Kids need inspiring role models! The USA Track & Field Foundation will share its groundbreaking Olympian-led program, entitled Run With US! This program directly connects America's pre-teen and teenage children to Olympic level athletes via a six-week school-based curriculum focused on running, physical fitness, healthy habits, self-esteem, and nutrition. |
| Presenter(s): | Jack Wickens (USA Track and Field Foundation Board Member) |
| Location: | MinHallG, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | School in the Woods - a Powerful, Life-changing, Nature-inspired Experiential School |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Outdoor experiences and fieldwork support learning about complex systems that connect humans with all aspects of the natural world |
| Description: | Join School in the Woods lead teacher on a brief journey into this remarkable, year-long, fourth grade natural science-based school. Through electronic presentations, interactive and sustainability- focused activities, and comment/question/answer discussions participants will experience part of the school's unique mission and adoptible instructional components, strategies and activities. |
| Presenter(s): | Jonathan Wuerth (School in the Woods) |
| Location: | Quartz AB, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Students Design Tomorrow's Green Schools and Systainable Communities |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | Students across the country participating in the School of the Future Design Competition have come up with amazing solutions. Representative of the passion and motivation all children have to think creatively about designing tomorrow's green schools & communities, they demonstrate extraordinary vision, social responsibility and environmental stewardship in creating healthy, sustainable, better learning environments. |
| Presenter(s): | David Schrader (Schrader Group Architects), Barbara Worth (CEFPI) |
| Location: | MinHallD, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | The Green Schools National Movement Collaboration Model |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | The featured panel will have national experts representing Eco Schools; Expeditionary Learning ; Green Charter Schools, HealthCorps and Project Learning Tree Green schools. They will share how they are collaborating to expand the Green Schools Movement . Each nonprofit organization will present research information on academic achievement, student health and environmental literacy. |
| Presenter(s): | Shawn Hayes (HealthCorps, Inc.), Jim McGrath (Green Schools National Network), Elizabeth Soper (Eco-Schools USA), Al Stenstrup (American Forest Foundation, Project Learning Tree), Tom VanWinkle (Expeditionary Learning Schools), Chuck Weber (Green Charter Schools Network) |
| Location: | 711, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Schoolyard Habitat Project Program & Guide |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Stewardship projects that allow the student to take responsibility for their own school grounds. |
| Description: | Participants will receive a copy of the newly published Schoolyard Habitat Project Guide and have the opportunity to browse the Guide with the author(s). Learn how to begin your project or get new ideas for using an existing one. |
| Presenter(s): | Karen Kelly Mullin (Willow Oak Group), Carolyn Kolstad (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) |
| Location: | MinHallB, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Using Project-Based Learning to Engage and Inspire Students to Change the World |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: STEM is used to educate students about green careers for a green economy. |
| Description: | Provide an authentic purpose and audience for your students while empowering them to become dynamic activists as they learn about conservation goals such as climate change, energy efficiency and recycling to make a difference in their schools, communities and even around the world through two premier programs: The Green Cup and Siemens We Can Change the World Challenges (siemensstemacademy.com). |
| Presenter(s): | Jannita Demian (Discovery Education), Craig Hibberd (Green Schools Alliance), Katy Perry (Green Schools Alliance) |
| Location: | 709, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | Value-Based Public Purchasing |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Long-term partnerships with experts that support and enhance sustainable systems. |
| Description: | Value-based public purchasing is not based on the lowest common denominator - cost - but on best value return on investment. If public policy values are not considered in public investments, what meaning do those values have? Value-based public purchasing reflects those values and greatly enhances return on investment. |
| Presenter(s): | Lynn Frank (Five Stars International, Ltd.) |
| Location: | 603, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| Title: | We Can Change the World! Engaging High School Students Through Service Learning |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Real world service learning projects that explore solutions to local problems and issues and teach 21st century skills. |
| Description: | Learn how New Vista High School and the Cottonwood Institute are helping high school students lead the greening of their own school. Participants will journey through our “Action Project Process” and explore how a service-learning curriculum, empowers students and motivates the whole school to become ecological citizens. |
| Presenter(s): | Madeline Bachner (Cottonwood Institute/ New Vista High School), PAIGE Doughty (New Vista High School and the Cottonwood Institute) |
| Location: | MinHallA, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM |
11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch - Exhibit Hall
| Title: | School Lunch Lottery-must be ticketed |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Healthy eating programs that utilize locally sourced and whole foods. |
| Description: | Concerned about the quality of school lunch today? Concerned about the severity of diet-related health issues impacting the future of America’s children? Do you believe that ALL children deserve access to fresh, nutritious foods? You are not alone. Please join Organic Valley and Stonyfield, along with Chef Ann Cooper aka "Lunch Lady", Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D., and Andrew Nowak of Slow Food Denver for a unique eating experience and presentation focused on the current state of school lunch programs in this country, as well as the opportunities and innovations that are changing the way we feed our children, one cafeteria at a time. Participants will experience first-hand how the quality of the foods we choose to feed children through our schools have the power to improve our children’s health and wellness in the short and long term.. |
| Presenter(s): | Ann Cooper (Boulder Valley School District), Melinda Hemmelgarn (Food Sleuth), Andy Nowak (Slow Food Denver) |
| Location: | Mineral Foyer , Hyatt Hotel |
| Mineral Foyer , Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Tuesday 2/28 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM |
| Wednesday 2/29 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM |
Denver School Visits
1:15pm - 2:30pm Breakout Sessions
| Title: | A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy and Sustainable School Environments |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | U.S. EPA’s Indoor Environments Division equips schools nationwide–regardless of size, location or budget–to proactively manage environmental health and safety. This session will present effective strategies for managing school environmental health during new construction, renovation and retrofit, and ongoing operations to help schools improve environmental quality, reduce energy use, and support sustainable, green solutions. |
| Presenter(s): | Michele Curreri (U.S. EPA, Indoor Environments Division), Tracy Enger (US EPA), Kate Hastings (The Cadmus Group, Inc.), Dave Hill (Blue Valley School District), Brian Kasher (Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools) |
| Location: | Capt7, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Eco-Schools USA: Creating a Network of Partnerships to Help Schools Become Green |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | NWF’s Eco-Schools USA program is a global Green School program. Through the development of state, national and international networks of green school organizations, Eco-Schools USA shows how creating an umbrella approach to helping schools become green can build capacity within organizations and enhance Green School network building across the country. |
| Presenter(s): | Julie Gustafson (National Wildlife Federation), Elizabeth Soper (Eco-Schools USA) |
| Location: | 704, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | EE Funding: Creating a Symbiotic Relationship Between Applicant and Funder |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Long-term partnerships with experts that support and enhance sustainable systems. |
| Description: | So you’d like funds for your project. Ever consider your role in ensuring those funds are available for distribution now and into the future? Discover frank strategies for achieving financial support of your EE initiatives in both the short and long term. |
| Presenter(s): | Ginny Carlton (Wisconsin Environmental Education Board) |
| Location: | MinHallE, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Effective Green and Sustainable Education for Underserved Students and Communities |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: |
| Description: | One of the most daunting challenges of education today is to develop effective methods and curriculum to engage special education and low performing students. The goal is to help these students make academic progress – not an easy task. This workshop will present the work of two remarkable New York City teachers who have developed unique methods and tools for creating pathways of success for these students by incorporating the principles of sustainability and biophilia in curriculum and by developing practical and innovative green projects . |
| Presenter(s): | Darryl Alexander (American Federation of Teachers), Mitchell Porcelan (United Federation of Teachers, AFT), Stephen Ritz (United Federation of Teachers, AFT) |
| Location: | 108, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Facing the Future: Education for Sustainability Through Service Learning |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Real world service learning projects that explore solutions to local problems and issues and teach 21st century skills. |
| Description: | Teaching about global issues and sustainability is an opportunity to motivate students about the future and their own education. By sharing inspiring examples and ideas for taking action, Facing the Future resources are designed to reaffirm young people's hope and belief in their ability to make a difference. |
| Presenter(s): | Naomi Harper (WIll Rogers Middle School) |
| Location: | 706, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Go Green and Get Lean: How Safe Routes to School Programs and Policies Can Get Students Active and Create a Green Environment |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 4: Health and Well Being: Integration of lifetime outdoor activities such as walking, hiking, biking, camping, backpacking and skiing. |
| Description: | The session will describe Safe Routes to School programs with examples from the 5 E’s – Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, Engineering, and Evaluation. Policies that promote physical activity and cleaner environments will also be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss implementation of both programs and policies. |
| Presenter(s): | David Cowan (Safe Routes to School National Partnership), Jeremy Vann (Denver Public Schools) |
| Location: | 711, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Going Solar Without Breaking the Bank: An Introduction to Power Purchase Agreements |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | The desire to green operations and hedge against rising electricity costs is causing more educational facility managers to consider “going solar.” However, for most, a solar energy system isn’t in the budget. Find out how schools can achieve the environmental and monetary benefits of renewable energy without major upfront costs. |
| Presenter(s): | Jeff Altman (Tioga Energy) |
| Location: | 708, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Greening Your School Food Service |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Zero-waste or reduced-waste cafeterias. |
| Description: | While food production and service make a huge impact on people and the environment, it also creates a huge opportunity for change. We will discuss how food service can affect the environment and how schools can implement methods to make positive changes while increasing student participation. |
| Presenter(s): | Nate Allen (USGBC), Mark Bishop (Healthy Schools Campaign), Shannon Pinc (Saint Paul Public Schools), Margie Saidel (Chartwells) |
| Location: | 709, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Green Schools Programs: Two Case Studies |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 5: Strong Partnerships and Networks: Participation in the development of state and national green school networks. |
| Description: | MAEOE's Maryland Green School Program is thriving, with 18% of schools certified in the state and supported by a network of 32 environmental education organizations and individual volunteers. The award winning program has been recognized nationally in a 2010 PBS documentary. In Wisconsin, new partnerships are being formed to support and strengthen the Green and Healthy Schools program. |
| Presenter(s): | Victoria Rydberg (Wisconsin Green Schools Network), Joanne Schmader (The MD Association for Env and Outdoor Education) |
| Location: | 601, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | How to Green Your School: From Eco-Audits to Student Action Projects |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Stewardship projects that allow the student to take responsibility for their own school grounds. |
| Description: | Learn how to reduce your school's environmental footprint by using the campus as a hands-on sustainability lab. With our tools, students will do waste, water, energy or carbon audits and translate their analysis into creative actions to save resources and money while applying STEM and language skills. Spread solutions to the community and beyond! |
| Presenter(s): | Deborah Moore (Green Schools Initiative) |
| Location: | MinHallA, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Implementing a Comprehensive Facilities Sustainability Program at Westminster Schools |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | Westminster has a comprehensive facilities sustainability program that focuses on reducing waste through low/no-cost projects and improving operational efficiences. Westminster currently uses 42% less energy than an average K-12 school in the southeast region. Learn about the school's strategies and initiatives in their facilities department. |
| Presenter(s): | Sharon Jaye (The Westminster Schools) |
| Location: | MinHallC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Spit Heat to Cool the Planet: Music for the Movement |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 1: Curriculum that Advances Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: Environmental literacy and education for sustainability, as defined by local, state, and national standards, is integrated at all grade levels |
| Description: | This engaging, interactive workshop, facilitated by students/artists from High School for Recording Arts(HSRA), will provide a model for how to integrate music with Environmental Science. HSRA students will use their Mobile Studio to engage participants in composing and recording their own lyrics, which will be mixed and mastered into a song for the movement. |
| Presenter(s): | Mike Conway (High School for Recording Arts), Marvin Smith (High School for Recording Arts), Renee Swanson (High School for Recording Arts) |
| Location: | 702, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Stellar Students’ Sustainability Success – It’s Not Rocket Science, It Just Makes Sense! |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 2: Stewardship and Service Learning: Stewardship projects that allow the student to take responsibility for their own school grounds. |
| Description: | Students from Ponderosa High School's PeaceJam Club will share their successful projects of recycling, energy management, and renewable energy. Come learn how their grassroots sustainability efforts save their school nearly $105,000 per year! |
| Presenter(s): | Debbie Ruiz (Ponderosa High School), Lee Smit (Douglas County School District) |
| Location: | 705, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | The Classroom Coop; Using Sustainability as a Lens for Curriculum and Operations |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Content areas are integrated by using environmental and sustainability topics as the integrating them., Management practices operations and maintenance that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve indoor air quality and lighting, decrease waste stream and improve water conservation. |
| Description: | This session will focus on how to use sustainability as a lens for teaching. By looking at how the Academy for Global Citizenship, a Chicago Public Elementary School, integrates sustainable themes into every aspect of curriculum and operations, participants will see how sustainable eduction leads to curricular success, operational efficiency and are intimately linked. |
| Presenter(s): | Joe Phillips (Academy for Global Citizenship), Dan Schnitzer (Academy for Global Citizenship), Melissa Tobias (The Academy for Global Citizenship) |
| Location: | AgateABC, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | Toward Net Zero: Achieving the 2030 Challenge in School Design |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | Based on the US EPA’s Target Finder, the 2030 Challenge asserts a series of increasing reductions in energy use for building design, culminating in net zero energy in 2030. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn to use online tools and explore proven methods for reducing energy use in schools. |
| Presenter(s): | Jennifer Grant (NAC|Architecture), Mohit Mehta (M-E Engineers), Philip Riedel (NAC|Architecture) |
| Location: | MinHallD, Hyatt Hotel |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Title: | When Certification Doesn't Work - Green Building Criteria for Charter Schools |
| Core Practice: | Core Practice 3: Sustainable Facilities Design and Management: Green facilities design and construction retrofit for existing buildings as defined by state, regional or national certification programs. |
| Description: | Some charter school facilities have received prestigious LEED and CHPS designations. However, certification programs are not appropriate for every school that has green building aspirations. This panel will explore a new set of green criteria developed specifically for charters and their funders, including the most essential green measures a charter school project should include. |
| Presenter(s): | Ted Bardacke (Global Green USA), Ariel Behr (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) |
| Location: | 710,712, Convention Center |
| Time: | Wednesday 2/29 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
