Our School's Green Culture: At Reginald F. Lewis High School, we have been incorporating greening efforts into our Northeast Baltimore City school and surrounding community since 2015. Developing a 'Falcons Fly Green' Team has shed light to the school community about the importance of living a green lifestyle and the countless benefits; and we have had the opportunity to partner with many community supporters. Serving 525 students and approximately 35 staff members, our school's dedication to going green is very important to us. Students are making many aesthetic enhancements around the school. They are painting flower boxes for the front of the school and planting in them, completing campus clean-ups, landscaping our own courtyard with the Baltimore Orchard Project as a partner, and even supporting the CSX Beyond Our Rails movement with painting a mural at a local elementary school, among many other great experiences. Teachers, administrators, and staff attended a Professional Development to be held at the November 2016 Green Team meeting at RFL based around lesson planning and ideas to spread the green knowledge into many classrooms. Educating as many people within the school as possible will help gain interest and grow ideas. The Falcons Fly Green Team have gained a spot for a presentation at the April 2017 faculty meeting. Side note: Throughout the website, some captions are seen by scrolling the cursor over the pictures. |
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