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By Liba Zweigbaum Herman, Project Footprint Coordinator
At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, Heilicher started a new sustainability initiative called Project Footprint. The mission of Project Footprint is:
To empower students, families and staff at Heilicher to enhance their environmental awareness, their personal connection to nature; promote self-stewardship and curiosity to become strong advocates for their communities.
Over the course of the year we were busy implementing several changes to school practices. Here are some of our program highlights:
Heilicher parent, Judy L. had this to say about Project Footprint: "I see composting as a physical form of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). The waste stream in our developed world is polluting our planet. Along with recycling, composting helps us learn what we use that can’t go into either stream and look for alternative products. We can all aspire to a zero-trash world. I like that our school reflects what we do at home."
While we accomplished a lot in our first year, we still have more work to do.
Here is what's coming:
We are looking forward to all that is to come in making our community more ecologically responsible and respectful. Learn more about Project Footprint on the blog.
The Heilicher Alumni Board, made up of current high schoolers, met in February to begin formulating recommendations to strengthen the school and its programs. Read about the first meeting of the 2019 year.
Heilicher parent Tamar Green reflects on her experience at the school's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day assemblies featuring presentations by Pastor Lawrence T. Richardson.
Morgan Stair's seventh graders read and wrote a variety of poems and created websites to display them. Explore some of their creative works here.
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