Hidenwood Students Go Green!

Our fifth grade students will be running a new recycling program at Hidenwood Elementary this spring. Their teacher, Brian Lieberman, received a grant from the Kids In Need Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding creative, innovative learning projects. The students will distribute recycling bins around the school and will take responsibility for the collection of these materials. This will be the start of an exciting project-based authentic learning experience, during which students will not only study science and social studies, but also develop personal, social, and civil responsibility.

The project has already begun to bring students together. To get the project underway, students visited classrooms throughout the school to distribute recycling bins. After outlining the program, they fielded questions from their fellow students. I was so impressed with how confident and competent they sounded! Of course, our students could not contain their enthusiasm to join the project, and began collecting materials as soon as the bins were delivered. Thanks to the hard work of Mr. Lieberman and his students, Hidenwood Elementary will soon be a cleaner, greener place!