NEW YORK—Capping six weeks of hands-on sustainability education, the 13 New York City teachers attending the Waste Water and Energy training program turned in their final exams on Monday night.
The course, offered by the Department of Education as a part of the After School Professional Development and created by New York Sun Works, not only educates teachers about sustainability, but teaches how to apply what they learned using fun and innovative methods in their own classrooms.
Shakira Castronovo, a science teacher at PS333, taught the course from the greenhouse she uses as a classroom every day.
“I really wanted this class to be useful so part of it should be learning new information, and part of it should be applying it,” she said before the training began on Monday evening. “They had to be thinking each time how something we did here could actually be used in their classrooms.”
