A public school can place the environment at the center of its whole curriculum

Evidence

Sunnyside Environmental School is a K-8 public school in Portland, Oregon. Begun as a middle school in 1995, it expanded to K-8 several years later. The founding principles included putting the environment at the center of the curriculum, the importance of students spending time in nature, and a responsibility to the larger community. A Native American elder was part of the founding group, and the school was also designed to meet the needs of native students (Williams & Taylor, 1999). — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1837

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Place-based education organizes work into four balanced domains of practice. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 74; Thematic curriculum can unite every subject around a local environmental place — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1842