Professional Development

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SUMMITS

Environmental Charter Schools invites K-12 educators and community leaders to join us for daylong summits that explore best practices in environmental education, service learning and schoolwide greening. Experience our living campuses, engage in collaborative curriculum planning, participate in hands-on field trips and walk away with partnerships and tools to take back to your colleagues!

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GREEN AMBASSADORS STUDENT SPEAKER SERIES

Green Ambassadors student interns from Environmental Charter High School are available to speak to schools, businesses and organizations in the Los Angeles area. These students can help inspire your students and employees to make tangible changes in their lives and reduce their carbon footprint. Please fill out the speaker request form below to set up a time!

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CONSULTATION

Our team of educators and administrators is available to come to you, which will allow us to customize our approach and work together to develop an action plan unique to your school site and student needs that covers any or all of the following areas:

• Creating a culture of sustainability
• Implementing green projects on campus
• Integrating sustainability across disciplines
• Adopting service learning
• Implementing the Green Ambassadors curriculum

ON-SITE TRAINING

Our facilitators are available to lead customized professional development that will meet your specific site needs and student goals when it comes to implementing interdisciplinary sustainable service learning. We have experience leading small teams as well as large groups through a focused, thematic lens as well as a more general, curriculum-based approach.

We implement a 5-step process
1. Observation & Assessment
• Assessment of strengths and needs via campus tour
• Informational interviews with teachers, admin, students & partners

2. Resource Identification
• Identification of resources that already exist
• Exploration of potential untapped resources

3. Goal setting & Next Steps
• Immediate & long term

4. Curriculum & Training Tools
• Tools and training to help you accomplish goals

5. Coaching
• Support in following through with plans and next steps

SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES

Our facilitators, students and administrators are available to speak at conferences on the following topics:
• Creating a culture of sustainability
• Greening your campus
• An integrated approach to sustainability across multiple disciplines
• Making learning authentic through sustainable service learning
• Connecting curriculum to the community
• Creating student leaders

VISIT OUR CAMPUS

Come take a student led-tour of Environmental Charter High School’s living campus and learning laboratory.