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Spring 2007 Articles

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School Finds Shared Leadership, Norms Training a Valuable First Step in School Improvement
Page High School’s 13-member school improvement team is well on its way to creating a culture of effective communication and true collaboration. Following a custom-designed, one-day AFRE Best Practices training, the group faced the challenge of changing stakeholders’ beliefs and behaviors, and sharing school leadership and responsibility. Learn the steps that they took which led to immediate changes in attitude and behavior.

Looking Back: AFRE Receives Two Awards for Excellence
The end of 2006 brought two awards—one for AFRE’s natural resource education program for teachers, and a national award for exceptional leadership in the field of environmental education.

Home Builders Provide Teachers with Insights into Growth, Community Development
Homes and the infrastructure necessary to serve them are major consumers of water, land and energy. It requires a complex balancing act to meet residents’ wants and needs while striving to reduce the impact of growth on the environment.

Through the support of the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona (HBACA) teachers and their students become aware of the connections between Arizona’s natural resources and residents’ quality of life.

Reaching Out: AFRE Announces New Advisory Council
AFRE’s professional development offerings have grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of Arizona K-12 educators since the nonprofit was established in 2001.

With the energy and support of our new AFRE Advisory Council members, we look forward to even more exciting developments in the months and years ahead.

Planning Ahead: Summer 2007 Professional Growth and Renewal Opportunities
This year AFRE is offering nine exciting summer academy workshops that you can mix and match to round out your professional training. Our goal is to advance deep understanding and transform lives by helping educators become the best they can be. Please join us!

Dwellings, Owners’ Lifestyles Provide Valuable Natural Resource Lessons
In 2006, Arizona had the fastest growing population in the nation, fueled primarily by people moving from other states.

To meet the demands of this annual growth will require an estimated 80,500 new housing units; 41 million more gallons a day of water (for residential, commercial and industrial usage); and 907 million more kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

It’s vital that new and existing Arizonans understand the interrelationship between our wants and needs as residents, and the state’s economy and environmental sustainability. AFRE plays an important role in helping to further this understanding.