What if urban public schools could mobilize their cities and schoolyards as classrooms – helping city students connect to their urban environments, master high academic standards, and grow into environmental stewards? Teaching our Cities and Schoolyards was a two-year project that aimed to do just that, with support from the EPA’s Environmental Education Grant Program. Two Common Ground...
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Jeff Johnson March 19, 2018
The Greene School's 12th grade learning expedition, “Our Place By The Sea,” is a year long multidisciplinary unit, through which students study Rhode Island’s historic lack of sustainability from an economic, environmental and social lens. Over the course of the year, students engage through these” three pillars of sustainability,” and through the multidisciplinary lenses offfered by their...
Brendan Haggerty March 19, 2018
Expeditions are the defining, rewarding, engaging core of students’ experiences at the Greene School. They are totally worth all the energy we put into them. But it’s important to acknowledge that there are many challenges to this to approach to teaching and learning, for both teachers and students. For teachers, one of the greatest challenges is of course time! When integrating multiple...