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Global Learning, Inc. is a non-profit educational organization that translates the world's growing interdependence into educational activities for teachers, students, librarians, and educational systems, from elementary school through college and in community settings.

What is Sustainable Development

High Performance
School Buildings
for New Jersey
PRESENTATION
 

Selected High Performance School Buildings & Grounds Resources

Willow School
Case Study
 

Global Learning Launches Green Schools Program
in New Jersey

 
 
Our Sustainable Development Program.

Our work with sustainable development began in the 1980s with curriculum development and teacher education. Over time, we have also become involved with how to make the operations of schools more sustainable.

The New Jersey Sustainable Schools Network is a consortium of schools, a wide variety of organizations, and concerned individuals who are committed to promoting education and school practices for a sustainable future in all schools in New Jersey. We have identified eight doorways to sustainable schools and have developed a number of programs to walk through those doorways.

High Performance Schools are healthy, smart, green and cost effective. Working with the New Jersey High Performance Building Design Workgroup, Global Learning has been educating school and community audiences on the what, why’s and how’s of high performance schools, especially in light of New Jersey’s $8.7 billion schools construction program.

Focusing on energy conservation and education, Global Learning has brought the nationally acclaimed Green Schools Program of the Alliance to Save Energy to New Jersey. Green Schools Teams of teachers, administrators, custodians and students in 7 of Brick Township Schools’ 12 schools are learning about energy and evaluating school operations. Financial savings will be returned to these individual schools for additional educational and outreach activities. Nationally, Green Schools have saved an average of 5-15% on their energy costs. We are in the process of adding a second school district to the Green Schools Program.

Global Learning has completed a project to identify Solar Energy Educational Resources for New Jersey’s teachers, in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Our two national partnerships with the American Library Association were funded by the US Agency for International Development. Resources from these sustainability partnerships are still available: Libraries Build Sustainable Communities and Local Libraries: Global Awareness.

The Conflict Mediators Program trains teachers and students in nonviolent conflict resolution and mediation skills. We help teachers incorporate these concepts and skills within their existing curriculum and help set up student peer
mediation programs in elementary, middle and high schools. The Conflict Mediators Program is an approved program provider in the New Jersey Department of Education's Character Education Partnership Initiative.

Global Learning's approach to Multicultural Education is based on a commitment to increasing equity within our own pluralistic society and a vision of a healthy, inclusive human community. We stress the development of cross-cultural attitudes and skills that help students and teachers interact positively with people who may appear different from themselves.

Global Learning is registered with the New Jersey Department of Education as a Professional Development Provider, number 2590.