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Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD

Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD. We Share the Earth… With other people… With living things… With non-living things. Can you live sustainably? What does that mean anyway? How will we engage learners and educators to live sustainably?. Enough, For All, For ever.

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Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD

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  1. Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD

  2. We Share the Earth… With other people… With living things… With non-living things. Can you live sustainably? What does that mean anyway? How will we engage learners and educators to live sustainably?

  3. Enough, For All, For ever African Elder

  4. Pushing the Boundaries for an Education for Sustainable Futures in HSD Russ Dirks – ESF CST

  5. Goals for ESF in HSD #1 Increase engagement through authentic student learning #2 Make meaningful community connections #3 Enable operations and facilities to reflect goals for sustainability

  6. Tourond Creek Discovery Centre - TCDC

  7. EXPLORE

  8. LISTEN

  9. WORK

  10. PLAY

  11. Woodlands

  12. Wetlands

  13. Grassland

  14. Tourond Creek

  15. Infrastructure Development

  16. Curriculum Development

  17. HSD 50 % Challenge System-Wide Waste Reduction

  18. At our HSD PD session with Chuck Hopkins on October 8th 2010…

  19. …It was a challenge to think differently –locally and globally

  20. What would have been garbage…

  21. …was put in an industrial/agricultural composting site…

  22. …And after a few weeks of heating up in a windrow…

  23. All of this “garbage” …

  24. …became part of a heap of compost.

  25. Is that possible at your school and at the HSD Admin. Centre?

  26. Waste Reduction Week – Landmark Elementary School Can we produce less landfill waste?

  27. Waste Reduction Week – The Coffee Can Challenge

  28. Think About Where Garbage Goes When it Leaves Your Classroom…

  29. Think about the word… “Land…fill”

  30. Let’s Talk About It

  31. Should Everything Go Into the Garbage When We’re Done With It?

  32. What Could We Do With It?

  33. At LES the “Waste Reduction Week” changed into a waste reduction pilot program. We asked the question, “Why would we stop reducing waste after the week is over?”

  34. We Took A Closer Look at Our Garbage

  35. Green Teams

  36. Changes were made in classrooms…

  37. And In the Hallways…

  38. Even the Staffroom…

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