Please visit the Environmental Portals new web site:
S e a t
t l e ' s
Environmental
Portal
(Partnership Opportunities
for Real-World Teaching
and Learning)
Full
Convening of the Environmental Portal
September 8th, 2005!!!
What
is it?
The Environmental Portal is a partnership of individuals and organizations
~ including educators, businesses, government and non-profit agencies ~ that
are passionate about the environment and committed to providing students with
tangible and diverse opportunities to integrate real-world learning about
the environment into their school curriculum.
What does it do?
The Environmental Portal creates authentic partnerships between schools and
the environmental community, aligning their mutual needs and interests, establishing
and implementing a range of real-world learning opportunities for students
and teachers, coordinating the use of available resources, and fostering the
high quality collaboration among all stakeholders that results in increased
student interest and enhanced student achievement.
*For more information about the Portal, please review our informative documents.
PORTAL
is a collaborative project of the Alliance for Education, Seattle Public Schools
and the Northwest Environmental Education Council. PORTAL provides a vehicle
through which Seattle's
education and employer communities can partner to promote student achievement
through real-world learning opportunities for all students