In this pathway, schools explore how to reimagine student learning through an audit and analysis of the sustainable nature of such things as the school building, facilities, outdoor grounds, management, operations, and resources as a means of analyzing, improving, and learning about the urgent practice of innovating for sustainable design, attitude, and behaviors that monitor how the internal school community acts in relation to nature, economic practices, social cohesion and inclusion.
In collaboration, students, educators, and the greater school community can investigate and design how to set sustainability targets, how to promote more sustainable attitudes and behaviors, how to shape actual practices for greater sustainability, and how to collect evidence in order to actively monitor progress with a deep link to curriculum or program goals.
By using the school community and building as a sustainability lab, learners are empowered community members that apply global thinking to local and personal action. These micro-local actions make applied learning and authentic sustainable impact visible on a daily basis within the functions and operations of the school and behaviors of the campus community. The sustainable school model, driven by student learning, celebrates and reinforces the idea that a move towards greater sustainability is possible and, more often than not, longer-term sustainable action is economically sound for institutions, as well as the present and future societies that students will lead and shape.
