Learning Together: Schools as Community Models of Sustainability!
On September 27th, 2012, the Alcona Community schools hosted a GLSI-supported schoolyard habitat training at their Donna Smith Memorial Garden. Eleven area educators from six area schools came together to learn with local partners including the Alcona County MSU Extension Master Gardeners, US Fish & Wildlife Service and Michigan Green Schools Program.
Educators both shared and gained ideas and resources for beginning or expanding their own schoolyard habitat projects and left the workshop inspired by the work of their colleagues and partners with these common interests across northeast Michigan!
By: Andrew Westrope, The Alpena News
LINCOLN - Alcona County MSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers, together with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative, will host a workshop on creating, using and maintaining natural habitats at Alcona Elementary School on Thursday for a dozen teachers and students from surrounding school districts.
Ten teachers and two students from Thunder bay Junior High, Bingham Arts Academy, Onaway Area Schools, and Oscoda Area Schools, collectively, have signed up to attend the three hour seminar, at whcih a handful of speakers from state agencies will use the example of Alcona Elementary School's to explain what schools can do to create their own outdoor projects and curriculums...
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