In an increasingly difficult world for educators, both teachers and administration are looking for ways to increase teacher retention.
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are established to help teachers grow as educators by providing a space to share and learn with one another - in community. The success of these PLCs is directly impacted by how they are led, what norms are established, and how agendas are planned.
Major advancements in computer programming are pushing machine learning practices to the forefront of big tech industry standards.
The benefit of choosing low-water use food on water conservation is communicated through a public service announcement for a student-run news station.
Students will view and analyze a model PSA and learn about the sewer system in San Francisco.
Students explore environmental justice, urban housing, and sustainable building strategies by designing a multifamily housing model that incorporates water, energy, and waste-reduction solutions, guided by expert insights from professionals in sustainable city planning and engineering.
A comparison between past and present designs to utilize and save water with cooperative systems, this introductory lesson leads to students developing an environmental action plan.
In this semester-long lesson, students learn to evaluate themselves on the skills necessary to dissect scientific journal articles, and develop an individualized process. Students experience great difficulty reading journal articles, and those same articles are a wealth of authentic science.
Students will learn how biomimicry is used to create devices to assist in mitigating climate change, and will develop a model showing how smart manufacturing and biomimicry could create a sustainable solution.