Adding Sustainability Standards & All School Sustainability Initiative to Curriculum

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The U School is based on a competency model.

We have subject specific competencies, and more global ones, with performance indicators like 

“I can monitor my progress, set and track my goals, and create a post-secondary plan to ensure that I am college and career ready.”

There are a set of relevant, but inadequate Next Generation Essentials competencies, that we are currently working to make more robust, in the interest of Target 4.7 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) education for sustainable development and global citizenship. Read more

Toolkit for Teachers- how/why do I teach outside of my content area and comfort zone?

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One of the things that the AFNR program offers is an abundance of “real world” problems that are not contrived. Teachers need look no further than the schoolyard (or even their own classroom) to see all the different ways that students can be engaging in their particular content area as it relates to food access and the relationship between nature and the built environment.  Read more

Community is the Key…

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Throughout the process of the EFS program, the largest takeaway I took as a teacher and a person is that creating a sustainable community begins with building a community. There are many issues that our students face in their school and home lives that can be addressed by creating sustainable solutions, but if those communities do not hold shared understanding of the need and value of these solutions there is unlikely to be enough momentum to keep these solutions ongoing. Read more