Code Number: 901.6
The building of new schools on relatively expansive grounds provides a rare opportunity to couple educational involvement, sound ecological practices, long-term stewardship, and an identity with our native Loess Hills environment. Best practices in educational programming, conservation, and ecology can be aligned in such a way as to help children understand essential concepts. In natural communities, we feel at home, and when we feel at home we are prone to protect and cherish that place.
The Board of Directors encourages site development in such ways as to focus on the relationships between educational programming and ecologically sound and sustainable land usage. Such practices may include, but will not necessarily be limited to:
- Improved comprehensive ecological planning that relates the architecture to the site;
- Improved storm water and runoff management;
- Control of sediment and other pollutants into water systems;
- Re-introduction of native plant species in selected landscaping;
- Designing natural study areas that can positively impact curricular access;
- Involving students in exploring the decisions that potentially surround the development of their school through integrated, active learning; and
- Promoting an identity students have for their school site.
A collaboration of the Site Council in conjunction with the Operations and Maintenance Department, Project Architect, and the Building Oversight Committee will conduct assessments and develop appropriate plans.
- First Adoption:
- 2000-08-15
- Revision Adoption:
- December 14, 2009/ August 13, 2012/ February 27, 2017
- Legal Reference:
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Iowa Code 280.3, .14; 297
Cedar Rapids Comm. School Distr., Linn County v. City of Cedar Rapids, 106
N.W. 2d 655 (1960), Iowa Code 73A.2, .18; 280.3, .14; 297
Iowa Code ยงยง 26; 544A.