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Did you know teachers and community partners are greening school campuses and increasing students' environmental literacy all across Wake County? Do you want to connect with others who have information and resources to help make your ideas happen? We invite teachers, administrators and community partners to join the Wake Green Schools Partnership.
Did you know teachers and community partners are greening school campuses and increasing students' environmental literacy all across Wake County? Do you want to connect with others who have information and resources to help make your ideas happen? We invite teachers, administrators and community partners to join the Wake Green Schools Partnership.
New Sustainable Practices Map!
New Sustainable Practices Map!
Thank you to the educators and administrators who have filled out our survey to share their school practices! The resulting map allows users to learn about sustainability and environmental literacy practices conducted across Wake County schools.
To view different types of practices, click the square icon in the upper left corner, and check the box beside a listed layer. Each layer reflects a category of practice. The "All Sustainable Practices" layer contains all of the practices that a school selected. In some cases, you'll find a contact name associated with the school who you can reach out to for more information. The map works best with only one layer checked on at a time. Have fun exploring the wonderful innovative things happening at schools!
🌟 Ready to get your school on the map, too? (Trust us, every school is already doing something!)
Wake Green Schools Partnership created a survey to identify green practices and programming happening at each school across the Wake County Public School System to enable peer support and networking across school communities who are interested in adopting similar practices, and to help us identify future support programs. This survey takes about 8-10 minutes to complete, and has been approved by WCPSS Dept. of Data, Research, and Accountability.
If you work at a school or represent your school's PTA and would like to complete the survey for the first time or update the survey on behalf of your school, you can request the survey link by emailing christy_perrin@ncsu.edu
Why sustainability? According to the U.S. Department of Education, research shows that school sustainability:
Why sustainability? According to the U.S. Department of Education, research shows that school sustainability:
Enhances learning environments that improve student performance
Reduces absenteeism by fostering healthier school spaces
Increases teacher retention
Saves districts money
School infrastructure is an essential element of equitable access to learning resources and high quality learning environments…and learning and health outcomes improve with access to hands on, active, outdoors, real-world, problem-, project-, and place-based environmental education that connects students to STEM and green career pathways. Source: U. S. Education Dept website.
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