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OUR INNOVATION
Green Apple School Management (GASM) was created to fill the ever-present needs of the whole child: academic, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical development. Integrating "Children's social and emotional development [with academics] has often been called the 'missing piece' of America's education system" (Gayl, 2017, April). Green Apple Schools' mission is to be the integral piece in the system for the students, educators, and community partners of every school we serve.
GASM provides an evidenced-based, data-driven, systems-approach to whole-child development. ASCD's researchers determined six tenets to successfully develop a whole-child based school culture, climate, and environment. A whole-child education ensures every student in school is: Healthy; Safe; Engaged; Supported; Challenged; and the schools have a structured, systems-oriented approach to Sustainability (2012). With Green Apple School Management, school leaders, educators, parents, and community partners are empowered to stay focused on the whole-child. GASM is continuously evolving with the needs of the school populations served to successfully maintain these whole-child based tenets for school culture, climate, and environment. Green Apple School Management team, on an ongoing basis, collaborates with every school-based team served to ensure we, at minimum, meet the following expectations:
• All students are healthy and their leaders are provided the necessary tools to integrate healthy life-style practices into the daily learning environment
o Every school facility is a 'green' or 'green-printed' environment based upon principles set forth, in part, from the Center for Eco-Literacy's, "Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment"
o Every school's 'Healthy Café' makes most of its meals fresh and from scratch and meets the dietary guidelines from the National School Lunch Program
• Every student is provided an emotionally and physically safe learning environment
• Educators use active learning strategies to engage students in relevant, real-world curricula including life-skills for success
• A school-wide climate of high expectations and rigor
• Academic, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical support is provided by highly-qualified and caring educators, counselors, and community partners who are equitably engaged in developing the potential of every student at every Green Apple School
Green Apple School Management improves the lives of students by developing, implementing and sustaining whole-child focused programs and 'green' school environments designed to manifest the unique potential of every child and develop healthy contributing members of society.
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