Creating Meaningful Partnerships within a Building: An Example From a 2012 Green School

Creating Meaningful Partnerships within a Building:An Example From a 2012 Green School

Radnor Middle SchoolRadnor Township School District Wayne, PA

Anthony Stevenson

Principal

Radnor Middle School

Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087

•Promote Environmental Stewardship•Energy Efficiency•Financial Sustainability• Reduce Absentees/Promote Student

Achievement • Elimination of Staff Complaints• Save $$$• Reduce Environmental Impact• Improve Indoor Environment• Become Teaching Model

BENEFITS OF GREEN

RADNOR MIDDLE SCHOOLDESIGN CRITERIA: KIDS FIRST

THE BEST POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT- High performance building- Availability of technology- Researched design details- Building as a Teaching Tool

SECURITY- Student supervision - Access control- Community friendly

FLEXIBILITY- Team teaching clusters- Modular spaces- Relocatable partitions- Systems designed to change

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING COMPONENTS

COMPLETED VEGETATED ROOF

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Design Maintenance Construction Utilities

US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUILDING LIFE CYCLE COSTING

Student Initiatives

•Green Partners Collaborative

•Big Local Organic Movement

•School Veggie Garden

•Native Species Initiative

•Backyard Habitat

Students Using Building as Teaching Tool

• Recycling•Environmental Awareness

•Green Touch Screen•Virtual Classroom

•Fund Raising Paper Collection•Walk and Bike to School

STEMScience Technology Engineering Math

Gateways

Project Lead the Way

Watershed Program

Nationally Recognized

Local Watershed Studies

Integrated Approach

RADNOR MIDDLE SCHOOL“The school with a heart, in the heart of Wayne”

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Anthony StevensonRadnor Middle School

E-mail: anthony.stevenson@rtsd.orgTel: (610) 688-8100 Ext. 7501