Greening of Schoolyards

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Green Schoolyards for Climate Action

Yes! I think Green Schoolyards are one of the first places to focus our attention to support positive changes for our Earth. School...

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Trees support student success

Recent study suggests planting trees at schools improve academic performance for middle school students. Trees within 250m (273 yds) of...

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Connecting with nature is more important....

...now than ever! With the current state of the world, everything seems to be changing or standing still. People are experiencing such a...

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So you've built your GOSY project... Now what do we do???

It is the classic, just because we built the Greening of Schoolyard projects, what happens next? Folks don't always know what to do or...

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Schools back....how to engage those kiddos?

Now that school is back in session, the first round of assessments are done and everyone is getting back into the groove, time to think...

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Creating the vision for your Green Schoolyard

I was honored to submit an article to the ASLA blog, The Field recently. The article focuses on one of the key tools that I use with...