I am forwarding this to the list. I think that you mentioned that you
hadn't seen it posted.
Leslie.
At 9:05 PM 2/25/98, Deanie Anderson wrote:
>At 07:55 PM 2/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>Deanie-
>>I didn't get it and I didn't see it on the list. Please, please send it
>>again.
>>
>>How are you?
>>
>>Leslie.
>>
>>Hello Leslie,
>
>It was so nice to get to visit with you in California.
>
>This has been a year of exploration and to see what is possible. I have
>directed much of my energy to the community and community resources in order
>to bring the community and the school together next year.
>
>1. Yearlong research, interviews,visitations through League of Women Voters
>on the Waste Management System of Marion/Polk Counties with special
>reference to incineration and landfilling. Our scope was broader in that
>the message was to illustrate greater resource reduction and recycling was
>the direction to head in a waste managment system. I have presented
>community forums on recycling, consumerism and the system itself. A
>complete study notebook will be prepared and the future will hold some
>civic lobbying and continuance on research.
>2. I am teaching at Willamette University with another woman-"Food and
>Sustainability" to illustrate how food choices affect resources, energy,
>livability and social structure.
>3. I am taking a county class "Master Recycler" and will be doing 30 hrs of
>a project and community education with that program.
>4. I am working with the State Eco-Justice committee for the Presbytery to
>design a conference template to take on the road throughout the state
>beginning here in Salem on May 15-16. The topic is Environmental Issues:
>Making Choices
>It is meangingful to link environmental knowledge with the impact on justice
>and equity issues globally.
>5. I am working on a program to implement our state PASS and CAM standards
>of Natural Sciences. This will take two years. This has invovled meetings
>and school site visits.
>6. In October, I jointly presented WW information at our State Science
>Conference. I have also done some elementary environmental programs and
>even worked with the Boy Scouts for a merit badge!
>7. I attended an AP environmental science workshop in California to see if
>that is the way to introduce a higher level of environmental studies into
>our building and have been working with another teacher to utilize our CBL
>and PSL materials more thoroughly in the building.
>8. Upcoming work is to take technology courses (more webpage stuff) through
>our tech center and to design a homwework web page; site visits to schools
>with environmental programs; apply for summer workshops from HACH and
>Sustainability Institues; help set up a local walk-in place for information
>on environmental organizations and issues (called Willamette Eco-Alliance);
>design a new course to hopefully be put in place next January.
>9. Wishfully, I would like to add more GIS and GLOBE work but we don't have
>these programs and I am unsure when budgeting will occur for them, however
>equipment sharing can go on with the city and county for water testing to go
>to the stream bank program, so we will probably look this direction.
>10. It has been a very full year of gathering and the prompt came from the
>opportunity to attend Princeton this summer. I don't know if this is in
>line with expectations but I know that the constant push to myself this year
>has been evnironmental studies.