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[Michael Burns <michael AT fingerlakespermaculture.org>]

New Roots Charter School hosts panel to discuss the imperative to go "Beyond 
Green" to prepare youth for a sustainable 21st century. 

Wednesday, March 5, 2014
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Sustainability Center
111 N. Albany St. Ithaca N.Y.


A panel of educators and students will explore the “paradigm shift” in 
education our youth need to meet 21st century challenges.
 
Responding to climate change, fossil fuel dependency, and economic trends 
requires curriculum that goes “beyond green” to develop students as community 
leaders and entrepreneurs who respond to emerging challenges and 
opportunities as systems thinkers that take both human and ecological needs 
and limits into account.
 
The evening’s panelists are trustees, staff, and students who are founders of 
New Roots Charter School, Ithaca’s charter high school for education for 
sustainability and justice. Chartered by the State University of New York in 
2009 to provide a “living laboratory” of education for sustainability at the 
secondary level, New Roots Charter School was inspired by the research-based 
State Education and Environment Roundtable’s Environment as Integrating 
Context for Education model. The New York Department of Environmental 
Conservation named New Roots Charter School the Top Green High School in 
2011-2012, just two years after it opened.

Panel participants include:
- Dr. Jason Hamilton, Chairman of the New Roots Charter School Board of 
Trustees; Associate Professor & Chair, Environmental Studies & Science, 
Ithaca College
- Dr. Peter Bardaglio, Vice Chair of the New Roots Board of Trustees; Senior 
Advisor, Second Nature; and Coordinator, Tompkins County Climate Protection 
Initiative
- Tina Nilsen-Hodges, Principal and Superintendent of New Roots Charter School
- David Streib, Science Teacher & Education for Sustainability Program 
Coordinator
- Rosemary Gloss & Ben Purdy, Current and Former New Roots Students

Community members, educators and students interested in learning more about 
sustainability education are welcome to attend. The panel discussion will be 
hosted by Sustainability Center, a community inspired gallery and meeting 
place located in downtown Ithaca.

http://newrootsschool.org/