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 Cincinnati Public Schools leads the nation in developing high performance school standards within a large, urban district. In September 2007, Cincinnati Public Schools made a public commitment and adopted guidelines to complete the third and fourth segments of the largest school construction program in their history as ‘green’ schools. It began with a vision that includes connections to the community, changes in the curriculum and the design and construction of greener and healthier schools.
 Growing Green & Healthy Schools is a five-part video series that will explore how it all began with a vision to improve the quality of local education, grew into a school board policy and is moving from theory to implementation with an emphasis on the academic, economic and health benefits for the thousands of students and teachers in CPS buildings. In the forthcoming video segments, these initiatives will be cradled in the Native American medicine wheel with the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air, providing a framework for each initiative.
Over the coming months, you'll find additional resources, photos and links to community partners who support the CPS Sustainable Design Initiative. Please visit this site often to learn more about what is happening in the schools across Cincinnati.
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Learn more about how Cincinnati Public Schools is creating "green" schools and the academic, economic and health benefits involved in these environmentally friendly buildings.
The guests for this overview of Growing Green and Healthy Schools are: green advocate Justin Jeffre, CPS consultant Darlene Kamine, ALLY executive director Ginny Frazier, Cincinnati Public School superintendent Rosa Blackwell, CPS manager of teacher programs Susan Hiles-Meadows, Cincinnati City Councilmember Roxanne Qualls, GBBN project manager Robert Knight, and CPS facilities director Michael Burson.
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