Classroom Earth Success Stories
Other teachers have had success incorporating the environment into their teaching. Want to know how? Read below.
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Jeff Rennicke, an English teacher at Conserve School in Land O’ Lakes, Wis., wants his students to understand and experience the connection between language and landscape. Prior to becoming a teacher, he was a full-time freelance writer for 22 years, writing 10 books and contributing to more than 300 magazine articles in publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Backpacker and other adventure and travel magazines.
Conrad Benedicto is a social studies teacher and executive director of the Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative (WALC), a small learning community that operates within two high schools in San Francisco: Balboa High School and Downtown High School. For more than 10 years, WALC has worked with diverse, urban students in a junior-senior academic coursework that incorporates outdoor experiences to bolster academic achievement. WALC seeks to nurture within students an awareness of and connection to the different histories and heritage of their communities, as well as the ecological processes that underlie all existence.
Ocean Jones is a poet, artist and educator. She has been able to combine her strengths--knowledge of cultures and nature, artistic talents, love of poetry, and a desire to teach young people--at Merced High School, where she has been a member of the Language Development Program for seventeen years. 