Team+1+Workspace

__**Team 1 Workspace**__

**Team Member Names** Mr. Shoulars Mr. King Ms. Greeley

**Mission Statement:** The mission our of school is to provide students, staff and families with the understanding and commitment to living within a sustainable community by fostering a sense of environmental stewardship. We will accomplish this mission by reducing our carbon foootprint while encouraging our vendors to do the same. There will be a reduction of the school's natural resources such as water, electricity, fuel, and waste. Our students will engage in project based service learning endeavors in part by planting a school garden, produce used in the school and community and other sustainability activities.

**Green Strategic Plan:** Faculty and students will articulate what sustainability is and what it means to them and the school. The schools will demonstrate sustainability everyday through our practise such as Reducing, Recycling, and Reusing, and Reducing our Carbon Foot Print. Our working mantra is Learn, Understand, Internalize, Appreciate, and Act/advocate reduced down to Learn and Do.

**Action Steps/Lesson Plans:**

Barack Obama Green Charter High School Green School Strategic Plan and Measurable Action Steps **Implementation Timeline:** September 2011-June 2013 **Evaluation of Goals/Year In Review:** September 2012-June 2013 Targeted Population • Board of Education Personnel <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Administration <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Teachers <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Students <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Families and Community

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Action Step 1**: Securing Funding for Green Schools <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Timeline:** August 2011- June 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Goal:** Fiscal Initiatives: Green Schools Funding <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Targeted Audience:** Administration <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Action Step:** Administration will submit applications to various Green School funders to locate and find funding for: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Staff Professional Development <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Instructional Resources for Staff <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Green Facilities Management <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Guest Speakers/Green Schools Experts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Resources <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Steven King, School Founder <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Board Members <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Parents <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Community Based Organizations <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluation: Measurable and Successful funding and fiscal partnership endeavors

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Action Step 2**: Classroom Instruction and Designing Standards Based Green Lessons <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Timeline**: August 2011-June 2012 (Ongoing) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Targeted Audience:** Faculty/Classroom Instruction <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Goal:** Implementing Green Practices and lessons <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Outcome:** Teachers will develop standards based lessons and learning communities which reflect best practices in sustainability. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teachers will develop instructional activities which assist students in developing an understanding of how they can be environmental stewards within their school, home and community <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Resources <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• School Administration <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• Green Schools Leadership Institute <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">• New Jersey Green Program of Studies <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluation of Action Step 2: Student Achievement Data, Lesson Designs, Student Surveys and Teacher Surveys, Observations of Green Practices within the learning community

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Action Step 3:** School Leadership within the Green Learning Community <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Timeline:** August 2011-June 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Targeted Audience:** Board of Trustees <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** Monthly Principal’s Report <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Outcome:** School Principal provides the Board of Trustees with an updates regarding school progress towards going green, instructional and facilities management within a green school learning community <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluation of Action Step 3: Board Feedback and School Leadership Internal Monitoring of desired outcomes

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Action Step 4:** Student Involvment within a Sustainable Community <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Timeline:** September 2011-June 2012 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Targeted Audience**: Student and Families <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Evaluation of Action Step 4**: Student Responses and Actions <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Activity:** Student Assembly Programs focused on Sustainability: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-September 2011: Climate <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-November Sustainability and Me <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Resources:** Student Personalized Problem Based Learning Plans, Guest Speakers, New Jersey Program of Studies <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Outcome:** Students will participate in an interactive, personalized school-wide assembly program which teaches them the importance of sustainability within their lives. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Evaluation:** Teacher facilitated interviews with students, student community service projects, Problem Based Learning endeavors

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