On Monday, the NEA Foundation awarded Redmond (WA) High School’s Mike Town the inaugural, $25,000 Green Prize in Public Education. In a Pearson Foundation video created for the announcement, Town, an environmental science teacher of 25 years, describes the work of his Cool School Challenge, a classroom project and aligned curriculum that has been adopted by more than 150 schools nationwide, resulting in the reduction of more than 1.5 million pounds of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. The NEA Foundation created the Green Prize in Public Education to recognize and showcase an outstanding public school educator or program that best advances social and environmental responsibility, improves student learning, and can be replicated. Town was the unanimous choice of a prestigious panel of national leaders from the environmental, education, business, and philanthropic sectors.
Harriet Sanford, President and CEO of The NEA Foundation, was joined by Philippe Cousteau, Spokesperson for Discovery Education, Correspondent for Planet Green, and CEO of EarthEcho International, in presenting the Green Prize to Town to a cheering assembly of about 300 students, parents, teachers, community and education leaders in the Redmond High School Performing Arts Center.
Watch the "Cool" video here: https://www.neafoundation.org/pages/educators/awards/green-prize-in-public-education/
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ReplyDeleteI work for Learning First Alliance, a permanent partnership of 18 of the leading education associations in the United States dedicated to improving the quality of America's public schools. Recently, we did an interview with Mike Town. We thought you might be interested in our interview with him: http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/taking-cool-school-challenge-conversation-environmental-educator-mike-town.