Registration for School District No. 42’s new Environmental School is set to begin this month, as the outdoor program hopes to welcome its inaugural class for 2011. Former Yennadon vice-principal Clayton Maitland is heading up the program, which hopes to offer “place-based imaginative and ecological education,” by taking kids out of the classroom and conducting… [Read More]
Registration Environmental School Project
January 13, 2011
For Registration Fall 2012: please click here The Environmental School is a choice “school” based on place-based, imaginative and ecological education. It is not regular “schooling”. Learning activities do not happen in a “regular” school or classroom setting. Learning activities will occur throughout Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows in different settings and environments. Learners… [Read More]
Unique Environmental School to Launch in Maple Ridge
December 5, 2010
Next year, a small group of students will experience a very different kind of education. A new school opening up in Maple Ridge next year could produce the next David Suzuki or Jane Goodall. Its curriculum will be following an environmental theme. The school board gave the project the go ahead last week. Mark Fettes with SFU’s faculty of… [Read More]
Environmental School project approved for September
December 1, 2010
In September 2011 a small group of students will begin experiencing a very different kind of education. Lessons will be hands-on with an environmental theme, and their classrooms will often be parks and other community facilities. This vision came one step closer to reality when the Board of Education gave its approval on November 24. Full… [Read More]
Innovation Launches
November 30, 2010
Innovation Launches: The board of education gave approval to a new environmental program. The board room at the district education office was standing-room-only at Wednesday night’s board of education meeting. This time, however, the crowd wasn’t there to protest a school closure – which was the topic at the last full-house school board meeting. This… [Read More]
