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Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

San Francisco Beautiful

San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance (SFGSA)

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)

San Francisco Unified School District

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Green Schoolyard Alliance (SFGSA)

2004 Green School Grounds Conference

October 8 & 9, 2004

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Welcome to the home page of SFGSA's 2004 Green School Grounds Conference!

The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance (SFGSA) hosted our second Green School Grounds Conference this fall on October 8th and 9th, 2004. We hope you were able to join us for this exciting event!

The conference built on the success of our similar conference in October 2002, and brought together over 200 K-12 teachers and community members from San Francisco and the greater Bay Area to learn more about creating and sustaining vibrant outdoor learning environments. Several conference participants traveled to our event from around the country, and many drove from around the state.

The 2004 Green School Grounds Conference began with a Friday evening event featuring:

  • a keynote lecture given by Delaine Eastin, former California State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
  • a networking and resource fair, and
  • opportunities for local green schoolyards to showcase their existing work.

On Saturday, conference participants had the opportunity to select two half-day, hands-on workshops from a wide variety of schoolyard greening topics. The workshops were designed to enhance the grounds of the schools that hosted them while teaching the participants valuable skills that they can put to use at their own schools.

Workshop topics included things such as: designing, building and maintaining school gardens; attracting wildlife to school grounds; building and using renewable energy systems at schools; reducing waste; creating schoolyard artwork; cooking with garden produce; green schoolyards and children's health; and other topics.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list for future events like this one, please send your name, address, and email address to: sfgsa@ecoschools.com.

More information about the 2004 Conference:

1. Follow up materials from the conference

2. Printed materials about the conference

3. Conference fundraising: donation form and silent auction information

4. Resource fair

5. School booths at the resource fair

6. Research poster sessions

7. Workshops and speakers

8. Academic credit for conference attendance

9. 2004 host school applications

10. Information about the SFGSA conference in 2002

11. Photographs from the SFGSA conference in 2002

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Follow up materials from the conference

The 2004 Green School Grounds Conference was held on October 8-9, 2004. To view some of our post-conference follow up materials, please click the links below.

If you learned a skill at the 2004 conference (or our 2002 conference!) that you plan to use in some way in the future, please let us know!

Will you build an earthbag bench at your school? Plant a living willow structure? Lead your class in hands-on science and math lessons? or try another lesson or building project you learned in one of the workshops? Please let us know about it! Send this information to: sfgsa@ecoschools.com and we will post information about your project on this website.

  • See how conference participants are using the skills they learned at this event! (Coming soon! We need your stories to make this happen!)
 
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SFGSA 2004 Green School Grounds Conference:

  
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Please Support the SFGSA 2004 Green School Grounds Conference!

  • If you would like to support the conference by making a financial or in-kind donation, please click on this link for more information.
  • We will be holding a silent auction as part of the the evening events on Friday, October 8, 2004, to raise money to support schoolyard greening in San Francisco's public schools. We are now accepting donations for the silent auction. Please contact sfgsa@ecoschools.com for more information or download the silent auction donation form.
  
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Resource Fair Information

We would like to invite nonprofit organizations and related businesses to participate in our resource fair on Friday evening, October 8, 2004. Each participating organization or business will receive a standard conference table-size space at the Friday night event to showcase their services and resources related to school ground greening. Resource fair booths will be open before and after the keynote speaker's evening presentation.
  • Cost to rent a conference table display space is $50 for nonprofit organizations and $100 for businesses.
  • This fee includes one ticket to the Friday night keynote lecture (a $15 value) for the booth attendant.
  • The deadline to register for the resource fair is 4:00 pm Friday, September 24, 2004. Space is limited, and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
  • Please contact sfgsa@ecoschools.com for more information and download the resource fair registration form to reserve a space now.
  
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School Booth Information

We would like to invite Bay Area schools to showcase their existing green schoolyard projects during the resource fair on Friday evening, October 8, 2004. Please download the school fair enrollment form to register now and reserve a booth to show off your school's garden, wildlife habitat, energy system, water system, composting projects, green building projects, or other related school ground greening work.

  • School booths at the resource fair should be staffed by two students from the school who can explain the school's work in this field, and one adult chaperone who will remain with them throughout the evening.
  • School booths will be given a standard conference table for their display area.
  • Cost to rent a school booth space: $10 per school. This fee includes three complimentary tickets for the Friday evening keynote lecture (one for each of the two student spokespeople, and one for their adult chaperone.). Additional tickets for the Friday night events will be at the usual rate of $15 per person.
  • The deadline to register for a school booth for the conference is: 10:00 am Monday, October 4, 2004. Space is limited, and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
  • Please contact sfgsa@ecoschools.com for more information and to reserve a space now.
  
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Research Poster Sessions

The conference will include an opportunity for school ground researchers to display their work at the resource fair on Friday evening, October 8, 2004. Please download an application for more information about submitting a research abstract for consideration. The deadline to submit a research abstract for the poster sessions is: July 16, 2004. Please contact ihyen@itsa.ucsf.edu for more information about the research poster sessions.

 

  
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Workshops & Speakers

We are happy to announce that Delaine Eastin, former California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will be the conference's keynote speaker on Friday evening, October 8, 2004.On Saturday, October 9, 2004, the conference will offer approximately 18 hands-on school ground greening workshops at three host schools in San Francisco.
  • More information about workshop topics and speakers will be posted soon!
  
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Academic credit for conference attendance

We are happy to announce that we will offer academic credit to conference participants this year.
  • In order to receive 1 unit of academic credit from California State University, Hayward's Continuing Education Department, conference participants must attend the entire conference, October 8-9, 2004, write a short paper reflecting on what they learned at the event, and pay a course credit fee to CSU Hayward.
  • To enroll, please download the course credit registration form, complete it, and send it to SFGSA with your regular conference payment and conference registration form (to be available in early August 2004). Please enclose an additional $44 check made out to CSU Hayward to pay for the course credit.

 

  
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2004 Host School Applications

  • Please note: This selection process is now complete for the 2004 conference. We encourage you to apply next time!
  • Do you work with a K-12 public school in San Francisco? If so, please consider applying to become one of the conference's three host schools. Applications are due by 4:30 pm on Thursday, March 18th, 2004.
  • Host school description
  • Host school application form
  
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Information about the SFGSA 2002 Growing Greener School Grounds Conference

The 2004 conference will be quite similar to the event we hosted in 2002. The 2002 brochure listed below will give you a good sense of the type of workshops we will offer again this year.

 
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Photographs from the SFGSA 2002 Growing Greener School Grounds Conference