Green Schools 2010-2011 Success Book

2010-2011 Highlights

During the 2010-2011 academic year, the Green Schools Program significantly ramped up efforts to increase awareness and exploration of green careers that help to protect the environment. To spark interest in green jobs. Green Schools students were exposed to numerous and varied green career opportunities through presentations by green professionals in the field, career fairs, research exercises in the classroom, and experiential, hands-on learning.

By carrying out Green Schools activities designed to reach every benchmark on the Green Schools Road Map, students gained practical and professional development experience by learning both the technical and soft skills needed to conduct an energy audit, calculate and analyze data, present the results and develop recommendations to share with a broader audience, and train and educate their peers, school, and local communities about important energy efficiency and overlapping environmental issues.

Goals

The Green Schools Program goals are two fold:

1. To educate students about energy efficiency, and
2. To save energy in schools.

 To reach these two overarching goals, the program focuses on empowering school staff and students to:

•  To Save money by reducing energy costs,
•  Build pathways to green jobs for students of all backgrounds,
• Integrate energy efficiency into science and math lessons that encourage student leadership,
• Protect the environment through cooperative, school-wide behavior, operations, maintenance changes, and
• Promote retrofits of more efficient equipment and appliances