TreePeopleGreen Infrastructure Program Manager
Sparks Middle School Greening is Complete! On Saturday, February 22nd, students, parents, community members, longtime volunteers, and school administrators gathered at Sparks Middle School to plant the remaining 23 trees from TreePeople’s 55-tree plan. Joined by the San Gabriel Valley team, members of the education department, and the Green Infrastructure team, this group put the…
TreePeople is extremely proud of all the work we are currently doing at schools around Southern California. For more information about all of our School Greening projects, click here. Curriculum update Last quarter, we shared a brief preview of the curriculum that TreePeople is bringing to the schools in our implementation grants. For the past…
In the preface to Claire Latané’s Schools That Heal, she reminds us that “It is hard to make healthy schools. Even in neighborhoods that have plenty of resources, most school environments fall short of supporting students’ mental and physical health and well-being.” TreePeople’s School Greening initiative aims to collaborate with school communities to reimagine how…