REGIONAL INNOVATION FORUM, SUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS TRACK
Friday, March 27 at the Expo Center इन Portland
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The Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative invites you to join us for the Sustainable Schools track of the Regional Innovation Forum: Sustainable School Systems; Creating Agents of Change.
Does our school system provide the education needed for our society to become sustainable? The K-12 infrastructure accommodates 20% of Oregon?s population daily, with corresponding impacts to sustainability. It gives every one of us the foundation for our future life, and establishes the starting point at which young adults enter our colleges, universities and businesses. We all have a stake in the direction of our schools, so everyone?s voice is needed to define the strategies that will make our schools the country?s sustainability
leaders.
Please come to learn, support the effort, and contribute your knowledge!
The day begins with a bus tour providing a first hand examination of local innovative school sustainability examples. We?ll visit Rosa Parks Elementary, da Vinci Art Middle School and Catlin Gable School and learn from Growing Gardens too. Hear from the people who planned
them about the leading edge sustainable features at each school, the key partnerships involved, and how the students interact with them. We?ll start you thinking about what you find. Will it lead to the future we need?
In the afternoon you?ll hear from business, school and school district sustainability leaders, and YOU. We?ll examine what a successful sustainable school system might include, consider what?s needed to achieve this vision, and we?ll explore what?s needed for that education to provide not only a theoretical understanding, but also to result in changed attitudes and behaviors.
The session will conclude with a probing discussion, led by former Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, about what role schools and education should play in meeting state goals for sustainability, and how to achieve that role. Prepare to be inspired and have your
assumptions about school sustainability and the role of schools in society greatly expanded!
