Environmental Education

 

What’s new with environmental education programming at KAB? When Pam Ray, Education Specialist with Keep Akron Beautiful (KAB) for over 21 years retired from the Akron Public Schools (APS), Board of Education, our contract for services was over. It sent the President & CEO, Paula Davis, back to the drawing board or in this case the agency’s clients-Akron’s teachers, K-12. Paula spent the summer of 2009 attending all of the APS Science Curriculum Specialist, Katrina Halasa’s summer enrichment workshops at Ott Staff Development Center. The goal was to re-assess the programming the nonprofit agency had been offering for over two decades and letting the teachers decide what they needed our agency to continue or how we could help them reach their classroom objectives in new ways. The President & CEO brought the ideas back to the KAB Board of Directors and for the 2009-2010 school year and beyond we are partnering with the Akron Public Schools, and other appropriate partners, on the following projects:

 

Arbor Day Celebration, Friday April 27th 2012. 

Classroom presentations for all fourth grade classrooms in the city, Slogan Contest to win one of 3 trees planted on school campuses and seedling distribution for each student.

 

Akron Science and Technology Fair

Keep Akron Beautiful sent three judges to the middle and secondary school science fair at North High School and selected three monetary winners for the projects that most closely addressed Greenprint for Akron goals. 

 

Summer Science Teacher Enrichment Field Trip

Keep Akron Beautiful has written a grant to the Smith Foundation for 3 years to fund and to rent a full-size bus and provide box lunches to take 47 teachers on a Greenprint for Akron Tour of local sites related to one of the 8 Smart areas addressed in the city’s sustainability plan. The first two years the bus went to eight locations to tour, hear speakers and take home media for their science classrooms. 

 

Keep Akron Beautiful Board of Directors Green Task Force

This volunteer task force is deciding on which summer community festivals and organizations they should partner with in 2012 to make them litter-free events and “green” education opportunities to model recycling and showcase energy efficiency.

         

 

 

 

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