Transcript Pushing the Boundaries for an ESF

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
African Elder
Pushing the Boundaries
for an Education for
Sustainable Futures
in HSD
Russ Dirks – ESF CST
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
Tourond Creek Discovery Centre TCDC
EXPLORE
LISTEN
WORK
PLAY
Woodlands
Wetlands
Grassland
Tourond Creek
Infrastructure Development
Curriculum Development
HSD 50 % Challenge
System-Wide Waste Reduction
At our HSD PD session with Chuck
Hopkins on October 8th 2010 …
…It was a challenge to think differently –
locally and globally
What would have been garbage…
…was put in an industrial/agricultural
composting site…
…And after a few weeks of heating up in
a windrow…
All of this “garbage” …
…became part of a heap of
compost.
Is that possible at your school and
at the HSD Admin. Centre?
Waste Reduction Week –
Landmark Elementary School
Can we
produce less
landfill
waste?
Waste Reduction Week – The Coffee
Can Challenge
Think About Where Garbage Goes
When it Leaves Your Classroom…
Think about the word… “Land…fill”
Let’s Talk About It
Should Everything Go Into the
Garbage When We’re Done With It?
What Could We Do With It?
We asked the question, “Why would
we stop reducing waste after the week
is over?”
At LES the “Waste Reduction Week”
changed into a waste reduction pilot
program.
We Took A Closer Look at Our
Garbage
Green Teams
Changes were made in classrooms…
And In the Hallways…
Even the Staffroom…
And the staff washrooms were not
immune
We Informed…
We Found a Way to Make the Change
We informed the waste collection
personnel
The contrast was
dramatic
We hauled it
Picked up finished
compost…
Grew plants with it
…At LES
75% reduction in
garbage waste!
With funding from the HSD
innovation grant to get us started…
LES is establishing a greenhouse for
the “Grow to Give “ project
Schools are
making events
into learning
opportunities
With student leadership
and staff support…
Added to creative
educating …
This LCI event was
virtually garbage free.
The City of Steinbach
compost facility …
…is now OPEN
Building ESF Inquiry into Existing
Curriculum
How much water is wasted by using
standard toilets instead of “low flow”
toilets?
How much water is wasted at a
water fountain?
A little
measuring…
…and
calculating…
…brings
about
surprising
results.
Turn to the people beside you…
 What
are you doing in your classroom that
helps students connect to ESF?
 What would you like to do in your
classroom to make more connections to
ESF?
 What are you doing in your school to turn
ideas into sustainable actions?
 What would you like to do in your school to
promote ESF?
 What initiatives could start your journey?
Congratulations to HSD Schools
NCI
LCI
GVS
Blumenort
Southwood
NES
LES