TLDR: Invite your seniors to a high school faculty meeting – maybe on Earth Day. Hold a fishbowl conversation, where you ask them about how your school has supported their growth as environmental leaders – and how you could do better. Then, work in teams of students and staff to fill big sheets of butcher paper, one for each grade – creating a map of the specific ways your school...
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Joel Tolman July 17, 2025
Wearing bright yellow safety vests, Aurelio, Claire, and Adriana lead their classmates across the narrow bridge that connects Common Ground High School's campus to the rest of the West Rock neighborhood. Hugging the guardrail, they are equipped with the tools they've assembled for the day's work: chalk, garbage pickers and bags, and homemade traffic signs sporting messages like "...
Joel Tolman November 3, 2024
Teaching Our Cities -- a project of Common Ground High School, Urban Farm & Environmental Education Center -- is seeking applications from high schools and nonprofit environment organizations interested in joining in a year-long collaborative effort. The goal: To develop, test, improve and share resources and tools that will help young people across New England (and beyond) build...