Help us plant...

Trees beautify our schools, reduce stormwater runoff and heat-island effect, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and even improve our students’ academic performance. That’s why SFUSD, in collaboration with Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), SF Green Schoolyard Alliance, and the Mayor’s Office of Greening is aiming to plant 2012 new trees in and around SF schools by 2012. They will serve as a visual sign of the District’s commitment to its students and the environment.

How it Works:
1. Visit www.2012by2012.com
2. Decide how much you’d like to contribute to the campaign.
3. Choose a particular school or let us decide where your dollars are best spent.
4. When FUF organizes a tree-planting in a particular neighborhood, it will use your financial support to plant trees at local schools in that part of the city.

Thanks for joining us on our quest to green our schools, our city, and our planet.

For more information:
Nik Kaestner
SFUSD Director of Sustainability
415.241.4327
kaestnern@sfusd.edu

2012 by 2012 is a collaboration between:

SFUSD, SFGSA, Friends of the Urban Forest, & the Mayor's Office of Greening.

 

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The Ecology of the School Garden

Spring 2009

Teacher Training Series for SFUSD teachers, parents & garden coordinators.

Please join us this spring for a series of 4 workshops held at the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum.

This series is designed to deepen classroom teachers' understanding of the ecological principles at work in the outdoor classroom. Topics include:

~Botany & Plant Science
~Life Cycles
~Nature in our city

This series will inspire and empower you to effectively use your outdoor classroom to enrich your students' learning within the curriculum and beyond.

$25 for the entire series & dinner is included!
DATES: Thursdays April 16th, 23rd, 30th, and May 7th
Time: 6 pm until 8:30 pm
Discounts to teacher teams!

Please email rachel@sfgreenschools.org for more information.

Please click here to see our series page for more information!

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The Growing Greener School Grounds Conference:

The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance hosted its 3rd Growing Greener School Grounds Conference on October 10th and 11th, 2008!

Thank you to all who participated!

We hope that you took some valuable skills with you back to your schools. We also hope to make available some of the resources that were shared in particular workshops, soon.

Be sure to checkout Richard Louv's website -our keynote speaker for the conference. He is the author of Last Child in the Woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder.

For more information please see our conference page.

 

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