New Roots Charter School hosts panel to discuss the imperative to go Beyond
Green to prepare youth for a sustainable 21st century.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Sustainability Center
111 N. Albany St. Ithaca N.Y.
A panel of educators and students will explore the “paradigm shift” in
education our youth need to meet 21st century challenges.
Responding to climate change, fossil fuel dependency, and economic trends
requires curriculum that goes “beyond green” to develop students as community
leaders and entrepreneurs who respond to emerging challenges and opportunities
as systems thinkers that take both human and ecological needs and limits into
account.
The evening’s panelists are trustees, staff, and students who are founders of
New Roots Charter School, Ithaca’s charter high school for education for
sustainability and justice. Chartered by the State University of New York in
2009 to provide a “living laboratory” of education for sustainability at the
secondary level, New Roots Charter School was inspired by the research-based
State Education and Environment Roundtable’s Environment as Integrating Context
for Education model. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation
named New Roots Charter School the Top Green High School in 2011-2012, just two
years after it opened.
Panel participants include:
- Dr. Jason Hamilton, Chairman of the New Roots Charter School Board of
Trustees; Associate Professor Chair, Environmental Studies Science, Ithaca
College
- Dr. Peter Bardaglio, Vice Chair of the New Roots Board of Trustees; Senior
Advisor, Second Nature; and Coordinator, Tompkins County Climate Protection
Initiative
- Tina Nilsen-Hodges, Principal and Superintendent of New Roots Charter School
- David Streib, Science Teacher Education for Sustainability Program
Coordinator
- Rosemary Gloss Ben Purdy, Current and Former New Roots Students
Community members, educators and students interested in learning more about
sustainability education are welcome to attend. The panel discussion will be
hosted by Sustainability Center, a community inspired gallery and meeting place
located in downtown Ithaca.
http://newrootsschool.org/
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