{"id":234407,"date":"2024-02-19T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/hawley\/?page_id=234407"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:27:31","slug":"green-and-healthy-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/about\/green-and-healthy-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Green and Healthy School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;page-intro&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]Hawley Environmental School is a leader in environmental and STEM education in Milwaukee, as well as one of Wisconsin\u2019s greenest grade-school campuses.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Recognized by the state departments of Natural Resources and Public Instruction through the <a href=\"https:\/\/green-and-healthy-schools-wi-dnr.hub.arcgis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green &amp; Healthy Schools Wisconsin<\/a> initiative, Hawley Environmental teachers, staff, and students demonstrate a daily commitment to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researching and reducing our school\u2019s environmental impact,<\/li>\n<li>Improving school and community health and wellness, and<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening environmental and sustainability literacy among our students, families, and community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To accomplish this, our school conducted Green &amp; Healthy Schools\u2019 health, safety, and environmental assessment, meeting requirements in the areas of chemical management, community involvement, energy, indoor air quality, mercury, pest management, school site\/grounds, transportation, waste and recycling, and water. Incorporating this knowledge into our environmental education curriculum helps students accumulate STEM knowledge and skills, serve as campus conservationists, and prepare for global citizenship.<\/p>\n<h2>Redeveloped Schoolyard<\/h2>\n<p>Hawley\u2019s redeveloped schoolyard, earth-sciences curriculum, and cleaner greener campus are strengthened by our membership in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gscm.refloh2o.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Schools Consortium of Milwaukee<\/a> and our partnership with the environmental education nonprofit, <a href=\"https:\/\/refloh2o.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reflo<\/a>. In 2019, Reflo and Hawley Environmental School:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replaced 25 percent of our schoolyard asphalt with a new kickball field, underground cistern, and outdoor classroom.<\/li>\n<li>Installed new raised-bed planters and rain gardens<\/li>\n<li>Coordinated school Green Teams to maintain our <a href=\"https:\/\/refloh2o.com\/hawley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redeveloped schoolyard<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Green Team(s)<\/h2>\n<p>Green Teams have been a Hawley Environmental School tradition for more than 20 years, keeping our school clean and consistent as we learn and live our values of conservation, preservation, beautification, and stewardship.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every week, one grade is assigned campus cleanup duty, which includes trash cleanup and composting and weeding in our three gardens (prairie, raised bed and sensory).<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Green Team includes educators from every grade.<\/li>\n<li>Weed Out Wednesdays bring school staff together as volunteers to plan Hawley\u2019s vegetable gardens, STEM open house, and transplant vegetables and flowers from greenhouse to raised garden beds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawley Environmental School is a leader in environmental and STEM education in Milwaukee, as well as one of Wisconsin\u2019s greenest grade-school campuses.Recognized by the state departments of Natural Resources and Public Instruction through the Green &amp; Healthy Schools Wisconsin initiative, Hawley Environmental teachers, staff, and students demonstrate a daily commitment to: Researching and reducing our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":78,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234407\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/hawley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}