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Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD. We Share the Earth… With other people… With living things… With non-living things. Can you live sustainably? What does that mean anyway? How will we engage learners and educators to live sustainably?. Enough, For All, For ever.
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We Share the Earth… With other people… With living things… With non-living things. Can you live sustainably? What does that mean anyway? How will we engage learners and educators to live sustainably?
Enough, For All, For ever African Elder
Pushing the Boundaries for an Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD Russ Dirks – ESF CST
Goals for ESF in HSD #1 Increase engagement through authentic student learning #2 Make meaningful community connections #3 Enable operations and facilities to reflect goals for sustainability
HSD 50 % Challenge System-Wide Waste Reduction
At our HSD PD session with Chuck Hopkins on October 8th 2010…
…It was a challenge to think differently –locally and globally
Is that possible at your school and at the HSD Admin. Centre?
Waste Reduction Week – Landmark Elementary School Can we produce less landfill waste?
Think About Where Garbage Goes When it Leaves Your Classroom…
Should Everything Go Into the Garbage When We’re Done With It?
At LES the “Waste Reduction Week” changed into a waste reduction pilot program. We asked the question, “Why would we stop reducing waste after the week is over?”