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Environmental Service Learning projects can take on a variety of expressions - sculptures made from recycled art materials, school gardens, an interactive eco-footprint game, and the list goes on! The unifying thread for all ESLI projects is the student-centered action. From identifying the project focus to strategizing and evaluating the results students have decision making power, taking the lead with any necessary support from their teachers and ESLI staff! Throughout the course of the school year students also engage in many other socio-environmental projects, activities and events!
To view the various projects and events of the following ESLI schools please select
Or you can view the city-wide activities of ESLI by selecting Abraham Lincoln High School2010-2009
2008-2009
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology2009-2010
2008-2009
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 | Mural Beautification Project Another side project of the School Garden, Mr. Stevenson's advisory and a few of Mr. D'Acquisto along with Fine Art students from CCA designed and painted a Mural along Church St. |
 | School Garden Build |
 | 2nd Annual Dance for the Earth (Multicultural Assembly) A yearly performance event held by ESLI MHS promoting Earth Stewardship, Positive relationships with the Earth and our women, and cultural performances. Youth and adults perform traditional and contemporary forms of arts promoting sustainability |
 | School Wide Compost and Recycling Implementation and Assembly In the beginning of the year ESLI planned with administrators and teachers on providing a workshop on recycling and composting that became fully implemented at the school throughout the year. Mission High became a pioneer in reducing thier waste at the school district and became a leader in sustainable schooling. Mr. Lau's students, advisory teacher and ESLI partner, decided that their service learning projects were to build compost bins, worm bins, and promote waste reduction at the school. |
 | ESLI "Greens" Teachers for Social Justice Conference ESLI partnered with T4SJ and Mission High to focus on Waste Reduction and brought in Environmental Justice content as part of the workshops. ESLI staff then ran 3 workshops during the event as well. ESLI gave stipends to MHS students to monitor waste stations and show teachers that attended how to properly divert their waste. In turn, T4SJ and ESLI were highly praised for this partnership and for their leadership in Environmental and Social Justice. |
 | Mission High Eco Week ESLI Youth leader and ESLI staff organizes ECO WEEK. De'Anthony Jones and other youth ESLI council members organized a week long event of workshops on the causes and solutions to global warming. Community partners came out and each did a 10-15 minute teach in/ presentation to share the solutions to GCC to Mission High Students. |
 | Garden Design - Green Schoolyard Grant |
 | Earth Day Trash Clean Up Students gathered on the steps of Mission High on a Saturday morning and set out to clean up the streets of the Mission by picking up trash. |
 | Library Courtyard Garden From their Unit II work in Urban Agriculture, this combination class decided to start growing their own food in the formerly abandoned Library Courtyard. Students took on a variety of tasks, from clearing out trash, planting from seed, transplanting, building self-watering containers, planter boxes, making plant labels, doing plant research, documenting, and the biggest triumph of all- building a greenhouse. |
 | Mission High Tree Planting A grant by the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF.ORG) provided over 20 orchard trees planted by Mission High School teachers, school principal, students, parents, and community members all over the school. |
 | Green Prom ESLI MHS was once again requested to assist the school in organizing a green prom. The green prom included a full waste diversion system from compost bins, recycling bins, as well as waste bins. Vegetarian food was also an option for the students showcasing the prom to be as most sustainable as possible. |
 | Global Research Project for Justice MHS World History teacher asked ESLI staff to consult in assisting her students doing a research project about environmental injustices and present their report with solutions to the rest of the class. Global Exchange and ESLI staff were used by students as interviewees around specific issues around Social and Environmental Justice. |
| School-Wide Global Climate Change Assembly MHS ESLI teamed up with ACE to do a one time presentation to MHS about climate change, the cause of it, and our role as responsible global citizens to take initiative to find solutions. After presenting to the whole science department they decided that it was best to have the event be a whole school assembly and invited us and ACE to fully run the show. | |
| Skate, Reuse, Recycle From their Unit II work on Energy, a group of 12 students formed and collaborated to participate in doing a video project based on promoting reusing and recycling through comedy, skating, and video production basics. ESLI Staff trained them to be student filmmakers focusing on sustainability. The students produced an engaging and educational short video PSA on Energy Reduction. | |
| Energy Audit Using the knowledge gathered from Unit II & the tools from the Pacific Energy Center. Students went around the school and conducted an energy audit. |
2008-2009
Philip and Sala Burton High School
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ESLI City-Wide Events
2009-2010
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| SF Green Festival '09 |
 | ESLI 2010 Teachers' Conference The 2nd annual ESLI Teachers Conference was a huge success! 49 people attended. This event, like last year, provided teachers with a hands-on, interactive day of workshops focused on integrating environmental service learning and environmental justice principles in the classroom. We held two key workshops: an Environmental Justice Intensive and a Hands-On Service Learning Workshop. All logistics, agenda development, food arrangement, the creation of a youth voice panel and volunteer coordination was managed by the Youth Advisory Board. |
 | Youth Advisory Board Planning Retreat in Marin Headlands The Youth Advisory Board attended their annual retreat, with the goals of building community amongst the group as well as to accomplish all initial visioning and planning of Eco-Fest 2010, including defining our goals of the event, deciding on the art & informational content of the event and creating subcommittees to manage and create each element. |
 | ESLI Youth Delegation to UNFCCC in Copenhagen Two ESLI Youth Advisory Board members, led by ESLI Youth Engagement Coordinator Ellen Choy, self-fundraised to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark for the UN climate change summit. They met and learned from activists, scientists and policy makers from around the world. |
 | 2nd Annual SF Youth Unity Eco-Fest The Youth Advisory Board worked on partnering with other community-based organizations and artists to create a full stage program, live art, interactive educational booths, a resource fair, vendors, multimedia tent, designed a media and outreach strategy and managed the ESLI Project Showcase where ESLI student classes were able to showcase their service projects. The event hosted over 1000 attendees, with a heavy majority of high school students. It was overall a very positive, community-oriented event, that rose critical awareness of environmental activism amongst young people, in a culturally relevant context. |
2008-2009
SF Youth Unity Eco-Fest '08-'09
Summer Outdoor Camping Trip '08-'09
Youth Advisory Board Headlands Retreat '08-'09
