The Center for Green Schools, 2013.
A toolkit for Behavior-based energy conservation in k-12 schools.
This report examines five public schools that have reduced their electricity use by an astonishing 20 to 37 percent through successful behavior-based strategies. These exemplar schools vary in their attributes and are spread across the United States, but their programs are linked and defined by shared elements and strategies.
The Center for Green Schools, 2015.
The Summit and the network it supports are the only of their kind in the country, specifically designed for staff at school districts, school systems and independent schools who are the point-people for environmental sustainability within their organization.
North Texas Chapter U.S. Green Building Council, 2015.
The Center for Green Schools, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 2014.
The following are some questions that this presentation addresses.
Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment (MACCHE), 2014.
Items included in this presentation about sustainable design
Architects of Achievement. Thoughtfully-designed school buildings—capable of supporting personalized, learning-focused, collaborative, and community-connected teaching and learning—have the power to transform individuals, schools, and the greater community. Momentum for high school reform is building as policymakers, opinion leaders, educators, and the general public recognize what visionary school reformers have known for years: American high schools, designed for a manufacturing economy that no longer exists, are failing to prepare our youth for college, career, and citizenship. Across the nation, large comprehensive high schools are being replaced with smaller, more dynamic learning communities. Our nation’s students are changing. School systems, curriculum and instruction, and facilities must evolve together, to prepare these new learners to lead our nation, and world, into the future. With you, we are honored to be part of this work.
VMDO Architects, 2013. The new carter G. woodson center education complex located in Buckingham county, in central, rural Virginia, has been designed and renovated as a modern learning campus for K–5 students with the intent to promote connectivity, creativity, physical activity, health and well-being for students and for the Buckingham county district community. The design for the school renovation was developed using novel theory-based guidelines created collaboratively by the design team and health research teams from the university of Nebraska and the university of Virginia. the project involved renovating two former schools built in 1954 and 1962, and connecting them through newly built structures to form one new school. the architectural firm VMDO oversaw and supported the designs for architecture, interior spaces, graphics and wayfinding, and landscaping.
More and more students are going to college now than ever before, so educational institutions are busy accommodating this growth with new academic buildings and dorms while ensuring that existing facilities are running efficiently. The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED® green building program) helps provide a layer of accountability for college campuses seeking ways to make their green building projects, both old and new, as environmentally responsible as possible. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a globally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of green buildings. Many of the schools profiled in these pages have LEED-certified buildings on campus or a commitment to future LEED projects, but that was not a criterion for inclusion in the book.
All of the schools in this guide, whether or not they are profiled in our annual Best Colleges book, are exemplary institutions that address the balance of people, planet, and prosperity in fascinating ways. Our hope, in coordinat- ing with the USGBC and its Center for Green Schools, is to break down what green looks like across different campuses in a way that will help you to choose the right school to live sustainably.
State Department of Education and Environmental Roundtable, 1998. Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for learning (EIC) defines a framework for education: a framework for interdisciplinary, collaborative, student-centered, hands-on, and engaged learning. It has begun to transform curricula in a growing number of schools across the United States and may have the potential to significantly improve K-12 education in America.
U.S. Department of Education, 2013. Highlights from the 2013 Honorees.
