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Editor's Letter Going Green, Making Sense nyone who has ever had a
9-year-old understands the concept of the A unanswerable question. While
I've fielded my share from my son Ethan, there is one question he keeps
lobbing at me that I can't even make up a good response to. How come we
keep cutting down the rainforest, he asks from the back seat of the car,
when we're on a bike ride or sitting at the breakfast table. I've tried
arguing with the concept of we and pinning the blame on commercial logging
and greedy governments, but that still doesn't satisfy me, never mind him.
The best answer I've come up with so far is to try to make a difference
ourselves. And that ties in directly with this month's cover story about
energy conservation, The Grass is Greener on This Side, page 42. We've all
heard the jokes about how I'm convinced education is nearly immune to
change, how it runs behind the business world in adapting new
technologies, how many classrooms are still set up the same way they
children in were when we were in the fourth grade. There may or may not be
good excuses for some of these deficiencies, but there school will affect
is one area that school districts can take the lead in: saving energy. I
say this because behaviors at it makes sense for three reasons: saving
energy wherever possible is the responsible thing to do; it can save
school districts up to $1.5 billion a year; and it can help home. schools
educate students about energy, conservation and how the two intersect.
School districts spend $6 billion annually on energy and the U.S.
Department of Edgar Hatrick, Energy estimates that one of every four
dollars are wasted. Ten percent can be saved superintendent, simply by
turning off unneeded lights, shutting down computers and leaving personal
Loudoun County Public space heaters at home. The other 15 percent of the
estimated savings would come Schools, Leesburg, Va. from replacing
outdated equipment. If you don't believe that number, neither does
Merrilee Harrigan, the director of education at the Alliance to Save
Energy. The 25 percent figure is conservative; it's probably higher than
that in many, many schools, she says. Money is still a wonderful
motivator, says Edgar Hatrick, superintendent of Loudoun County Public
Schools in Leesburg, Va. In the 12 years it has run an energy program,
Hatrick says the district has been able to avoid $17 million in energy
costs in its 68 schools. That's bought some textbooks and teachers, he
adds. The reason I think this movement makes the most sense is because
schools can use these measures to help educate students. Southwest Licking
School District near Columbus, Ohio, recently made $1.6 million in school
infrastructure improvements, including adding a small solar panel in its
middle school. The solar panel has been integrated into the school's
science curriculum and has allowed Superintendent Forest Yo- cum to sell a
small amount of energy back to the power company. Besides bringing science
education to life, schools are using the army of students to do some of
their work. Students in Philadelphia mapped classroom temperatures and
presented the data to the building engineer to fix their schools' uneven
heating system. Like many districts, Loudoun County tries to get students
involved in conserva- tion. It has an inspirational contest to design
light switch covers to encourage turning unneeded lights off. I'm
convinced children can make a difference, Hatrick says. TREND WATCH I
started wearing my seatbelt because my kids told me; I stopped smoking
because Tech Conferences my kids told me. I'm convinced children in school
will affect behaviors at home. page s 32 & 38 Who knows, one 9-year-old's
question may even lead to a satisfactory Standards and answer someday.
Assessment page s 59 & 80 Obesity and Exercise EDITOR-IN- CHIEF page s 24
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - August 2006
Contents
Progress with Purpose
Future Vision
Integrity, Accountability, Continuity
A New Kind of Testing
Update
Inside The Law
Curriculum Update
Administrator Profile
District Profile
The Online Edge Odvard Egil Dyrli
Speaking Out Gary Stager
Principal Opinion Eamonn O'Donovan
Editor's Letter
Snapshots
Problem/Solution
Research Corner
New Products
By the Numbers
The Grass is Greener On This Side
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