1. Promoting the Green Ribbon Schools Program in Nebraska
Samantha Corr, Isaac Cortes,
Whitney Drahota, Amanda Hefner, Eric Holley,
Mariah Lundgren, and Vicki Simonsen
Eric
Client James Blake, NDOE

2. Green Ribbon Schools Program
Based on three Pillars:
1. Reducing environmental impact and costs
2. Improving health and wellness
3. Implement environmental and sustainability education
Isaac

3. The goal of the Green Ribbon Schools Program
“identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness.”8  
Isaac

4. A lack of awareness about the program
barriers
A lack of awareness about the program
Worry of adding expense due to the lack of funding
Curriculums not allowing enough time for implementation
Teachers being overwhelmed with duties
Isaac

5. Goal
To promote the participation of Nebraska schools in the Green Ribbon Schools project.
Isaac

6. Goal
To promote the participation of Nebraska schools in the Green Ribbon Schools project.
Objectives
Create a promotional video for the program.
Create a list of resources for Nebraska schools to use.
Construct an action plan for Lincoln High School to meet the application standards of the Green Ribbon Schools Program.

7. Creating a Promotional Video
Objective: Produce a promotional video to show schools.
Tasks:
Interviewed Kristine Denton and her students
Explored how the Green Ribbon Schools Program impacted the school
Edited and produced a video
Amanda

8. Promotional Video
Amanda

9. Resources Objective: Create a new resource list that is: Up to date
Nebraska relevant
Easy to use
Tasks:
Look at other lists
Compile credible resources
Organizing resources by pillars
Whitney

10. Funding Resources Grants/Donations
Public Information and Education Mini-grant Awards (PIE Grant)
EPA Environmental Education Grants
NOAA Office of Education
USDA Rural Development
Donor’s Choice
Kohl’s Cares
Southwest Airlines Donations
Toshiba Grants
Competitions with Awards
Challenge.gov
Lexus Eco Challenge
Toshiba Exploravision Competition
Whitney

11. Lincoln High School: Model Action Plan
Objective:  To make the application seem more achievable and to break it up into clear actions, using Lincoln High School (LHS) as an example. 
Tasks: 
Meet with LHS teacher Sharill Luedtke
Find out schools current application status
Come up with actions to complete application items
Send action plan to LHS
Sam

12. Lincoln High School: Model Action Plan
Sam

13. Conclusion
The video that we produced will demonstrate the positive effect that the Green Ribbon Schools Program can have on student’s:
Attitude and relationship with the environment
Enthusiasm toward environmental subjects
Involvement with the surrounding community
The resource list and model action plan will make the program more accessible
Eric

14. References
Chi-Chung Ko, A and Chi-Kin Lee, J Teachers’ perceptions of teaching environmental issues within the science curriculum: a Hong Kong perspective. Journal of Science Education and Technology 12:
Chowa, G.A. and Ansong, D Student-directed projects: an international case study for social work education. Journal of Social Work Education 46:
Hudson, S.J Challenges for environmental education: issues and ideas for the 21st Century. BioScience 51,4:
Hungerford, H. R., and Volk, T. L Changing learner behavior through environmental education. The Journal of Environmental Education 21,3: 8-21.
Jensen B Environmental and health education viewed from an action-oriented perspective: a case from Denmark. Journal Of Curriculum Studies 36,4:
Newton, B.J Environmental education and outreach: experiences of a federal agency. BioScience 51,4:
Saylan, C., and Blumstein, D. T  The failure of environmental education (and how we can fix it). Univ of California Press.
U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools. ED.gov. U.S. Department of Education. 12 March Web. 19 March
Wheeler, G “Washington state K-12 integrated environmental and sustainability education learning standards” Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington.
Eric

15. The End
Eric
Questions?