educating for sustainability at BUGS

“...you cannot protect the environment unless you empower the people.”

-- Wangari Maathia, environmental and human rights activist

In classrooms at BUGS you see students designing a solar oven for communities with limited resources, surveying and analyzing water consumption, or developing a plan to promote the school’s community market.

Our sustainability curriculum provides students with exciting and meaningful opportunities to engage their leadership and voice, critical thinking, problem-solving, service learning, and strategic-thinking skills to create sustainable change in their communities.

BUGS students graduate prepared to succeed in high school, lead change, and to thrive in a rapidly changing and challenging workplace.

Educating for Sustainability

Our model for affecting change and framework for student work is grounded in educating for sustainability standards, field research, and community action projects. Sustainability at BUGS occurs in Sustainable Design Class (twice a week across all grades), during monthly Field Study days, through our focus on project and place-based learning, and the integration of Education for Sustainability (EfS) standards and grade level Sustainability themes across content area curricula and student projects.