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Green & Healthy

Being a Green & Healthy Encompasses Three Large Goals:   

  • Reducing Environmental Impacts and Costs

    • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions - add renewable and green energy (solar)

    • Improve water quality, efficiency, and conservation

    • Reduce solid and hazardous waste through recycling and composting

    • Expand the use of alternative transportation and energy-efficient options (walking, biking, etc.)

  • Improving Health and Wellness

    • High standards of Whole School Whole Community, Whole Child health, including health, nutrition, and outdoor physical education; health, counseling, and psychological services for both students and staff and family community involvement
    • An integrated school environmental health program - considerations during design, construction, renovation, operations, and maintenance of facilities and grounds, including cleaning and maintenance; mold and moisture; chemical and environmental contaminants; ventilation; and pests and pesticides.

 

  • Increasing Environmental Literacy

    • Interdisciplinary learning about the key relationships between dynamic environmental, energy, and human systems
    • Use of the environment and sustainability to develop STEM content knowledge and thinking skills to prepare graduates for the 21st-century technology-driven economy
    • Development of civic engagement knowledge and skills and students' application of such knowledge and skills to address sustainability issues in their community