Teachers

Connecting Curriculum and Standards to Teach About Healthy Habitats

By Rebecca Fox  |  October 20, 2018

Rebecca Fox is a science teacher who wanted to improve her school’s curriculum to meet new content standards for K-12 science classes. But when the new standards were implemented, she found that students weren’t engaged in two fundamental approaches: scientific inquiry or the experimental process. Her passion for experiential learning drove her to find something new. Continue reading to learn how she utilized field trips and projects to get her students involved in their community.

This Is Environmental Literacy: Rialto

By Kim Moon  |  October 20, 2018

The history of this place, and the story of what Ms. Chan and the district are doing to provide effective student-centered learning are inexorably intertwined, and illustrate another instance of how district-level support, committed educators, and community partnerships—working in concert with a place itself—enhance student engagement and support student success. Environmental literacy is woven throughout their innovative strategy to serve their students.