Objective 3: Community Partnerships
3.1. Community Partnerships
Washington County Public School Outdoor Education Green Center, Green Leader : George "Eddie" Waldron
Eddie and Lorrie have worked together for years. First as a mentor teacher, then at Old Forge on the fifth grade team, through WCPS Outdoor Education Center (Claude Kitchens Outdoor School at Fairview), and now as a Green Leader for MAEOE. Eddie and Lorrie have collaborated through email and face to face meetings to share ideas for OFE as a Maryland Green School. In this photo, Lorrie and Eddie were meeting in March 2017 to review and provide guidance and feedback on Old Forge's first recertification as a Maryland Green School.
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School Active in the Community
Children in Need
Old Forge has participated in a clothing drive (recycling clothes for others to benefit wearing them again) for multiple year, the most recent was in 2016. Children in Need is a non profit organization to supply clothing and school supplies to families of Washington County who have economic hardships. In addition to OFE families clothing donations, each year at the end of the school year the clothing left over in he lost and found is also donated to Children in Need.
(Pictured below, grade 5 students sort clothes into piles for boy versus girls before packing them up to be given to Child In Need.)
(Pictured below, grade 5 students sort clothes into piles for boy versus girls before packing them up to be given to Child In Need.)
Community Active in Schools
Anthony Drury is the Operations Supervisor and Recycling Programs Coordinator in Washington County Maryland.
(Mr. Anthony Drury Recycling Coordinator 12630 Earth Care Road Hagerstown, MD 21740- Phone: (240) 313-2796 Ex: Fax: (301) 582-3412 Email: [email protected]) We have worked together on several occasions; originally Tony came to present during a school wide assembly at OFE for our initial Maryland Green School Certification. Then we continued to work with each other annually for the Grosh's Lawn Care Phone Book drive that takes place throughout the county. I called upon Mr. Drury's help once again to seek information on hosting a e-waste drive for our school community on the same night as our Digital Learning Showcase. I emailed him at the end of February and he responded positively, requesting a meeting with me in person to go over some details. He was delighted to help in any way he could; he even offered to pick up the designated e-waste to help properly dispose of and recycle our donations. He gave me additional resources to check out like a list of acceptable electronics to recycle and information on Boonsboro Annual Green's Festival that would occur in the spring. I am extremely grateful to have a valuable partner like, Mr. Anthony Drury, working with Old Forge's green efforts.
Anthony Drury is the Operations Supervisor and Recycling Programs Coordinator in Washington County Maryland.
(Mr. Anthony Drury Recycling Coordinator 12630 Earth Care Road Hagerstown, MD 21740- Phone: (240) 313-2796 Ex: Fax: (301) 582-3412 Email: [email protected]) We have worked together on several occasions; originally Tony came to present during a school wide assembly at OFE for our initial Maryland Green School Certification. Then we continued to work with each other annually for the Grosh's Lawn Care Phone Book drive that takes place throughout the county. I called upon Mr. Drury's help once again to seek information on hosting a e-waste drive for our school community on the same night as our Digital Learning Showcase. I emailed him at the end of February and he responded positively, requesting a meeting with me in person to go over some details. He was delighted to help in any way he could; he even offered to pick up the designated e-waste to help properly dispose of and recycle our donations. He gave me additional resources to check out like a list of acceptable electronics to recycle and information on Boonsboro Annual Green's Festival that would occur in the spring. I am extremely grateful to have a valuable partner like, Mr. Anthony Drury, working with Old Forge's green efforts.
3.2. Systemic Partnerships
In the spring of 2016, the WCPS Outdoor Education Center's teachers (Claude E. Kitchens Outdoor School at Fairview) : Eddie Waldron (Green Leader) , Wayne Eckly, Sabrina Blair, and Tim Abe came to help facilitate an outdoor lesson based on the transfer of energy through the food chain. Students designated as omnivore, carnivores, and herbivores had to run and seek food and shelter using a ring of tags to represent their basic needs being met. Additional students assigned roles as decomposers, natural disasters, and diseases. Each species or role was signified by a colored jersey worn by the students. (Pictured below, classroom introduction, then the outdoor simulation. )