environmental literacy task force | qft mtg 040714
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Environmental Sustainability, Citizenship, &
Literacy
TASK FORCE MEETING | APRIL 7. 2014
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CAIS/WASC ACTION PLAN | GOAL 5 To enhance strategies to ensure the environmental sustainability of the school, the environmental citizenship of our students, and the environmental literacy of our community. Rationale: To refine strategies to minimize adverse environmental impacts of the school’s programs and operations; to support students’ competencies as environmental stewards; to inform all stakeholders’ learning about environmental sustainabilityImpact on Student Growth: To model strategies for environmental sustainability for the students; to involve students in expanded environmental studies in authentic problem-solving contexts Persons Responsible: Headmaster, Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Director of Facilities, Division Leadership, Director of Experiential Education Programs, Faculty, Students, Board of Trustees, Parents AssociationSteps/Timeline: Develop strategies in conjunction with implementation of Master Plan; revise Long Term Capital Repairs and Maintenance Forecast accordingly; seek and identify opportunities for children’s learning and stewardship inside and outside the classroom; involve students in authentic analysis, design, and problem-solving in conjunction with active phases of facilities design, construction, maintenance, and improvement; determine subsequent steps and timeline Resources: Budgetary implications to be determined annually; fundraising implications to be determined in conjunction with implementation of Master PlanReporting Progress: Tracking environmental impact of school programs and operations annually; articulating annual objectives for facilities sustainability and students’ environmental literacy and citizenship; reporting progress to Administration and Board of Trustees
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RULES FOR PRODUCING QUESTIONS
Ask as many questions as you can Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions Write down every question exactly as it is stated Change any statement into a question
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RULES FOR PRODUCING QUESTIONS
Ask as many questions as you can Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions Write down every question exactly as it is stated Change any statement into a question
What might be difficult about following these rules?
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PRODUCING THE QUESTIONS
• Follow the Rules for Producing Questions.
Ask as many questions as you can Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions Write down every question exactly as it is stated Change any statement into a question
• Number your questions.
QFocus:
To enhance strategies to ensure the environmental sustainability of the school, the environmental citizenship of our students, and the environmental literacy of our community.
www.rightquestion.org
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IMPROVING THE QUESTIONS
You might have these two kinds of questions in your list:
• Closed-ended questions – they can be answered with “yes” or “no” or with one word.
• Open-ended questions – they require an explanation and cannot be answered with yes” or “no” or with one word.
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IMPROVE YOUR QUESTIONS
Identify closed and open-ended questions.
1. Mark the closed ended questions with a C and the open-ended questions with an O.
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IMPROVE YOUR QUESTIONS
2. Name advantages of asking closed-ended questions.
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IMPROVE YOUR QUESTIONS
2. Name disadvantages of asking closed-ended questions.
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IMPROVE YOUR QUESTIONS
2. Name advantages of asking open-ended questions.
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IMPROVE YOUR QUESTIONS
2. Name disadvantages of asking open-ended questions.
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IMPROVE YOUR QUESTIONS
3. Review your list of questions and change one closed-ended question into an open-ended.
Then, change one open-ended question into a closed-ended one.
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PRIORITIZE YOUR QUESTIONS
Choose the three most important questions from your list.
Keep in mind the QFocus:
Mark each priority question with an “X” www.rightquestion.org
QFocus:
To enhance strategies to ensure the environmental sustainability of the school, the environmental citizenship of our students, and the environmental literacy of our community.
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SHARE YOUR QUESTIONS
Please share:
• the questions you changed from closed to open-ended and from open-ended to closed. Read each question as originally written and how it was changed,
• your three priority questions,
• your rationale for selecting those three.
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NEXT STEPS
1. How are you going to use your three priority questions?
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REFLECTION
1. What did you learn? 2.What value does it have?
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Next Steps