To offer high quality environmental learning and sustainability programs that actively engage Canadian elementary and secondary school students to:
By registering with Green Street, you can access high quality environmental learning and sustainability programs, funding opportunities, tap into a network of experts, and join a Web platform to find out what other schools are doing across the country to support environmental sustainability and student engagement.
Environmental Education Programs
Are you looking for environmental education programs that are credible, pre-screened, curriculum aligned and developed to encourage student engagement and stewardship? Book an environmental education program today.
Register Your Virtual Classroom
Register your elementary and secondary classroom(s) on the Green Street Schools platform to enable you and your students to exchange ideas and collaborate on projects of mutual interest.
A project funding opportunity is offered for a limited time on a first-come, first-serve basis, to encourage student engagement at the school–community level.
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
Established in 1937 by John Wilson McConnell (1877-1963) and nurtured and managed by him until his death, The J. W. McConnell Foundation grew out of Mr. McConnell's deep commitment to the public good and his life-long involvement with non-profit and charitable work in Canada. It was renamed The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation after his death to reflect the family's enduring support for his ideals.
The purpose of The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation has not greatly changed since it was established by its founder some 70 years ago: now, as then, it seeks to improve quality of life by building communities that help people to develop their talents and contribute to the common good.
Over the years, the ways to achieve this have evolved; what remains central to its purpose is the importance of community, how people contribute, and the Foundation's need to make choices in its granting decisions, to take risks, to learn and to be engaged with its grantees.
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation is a private family foundation to this day: the Board of Directors is comprised of family members who set policy and assure the Foundation's good governance. The Foundation has a small staff based in Montreal.
The Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF)
The Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) is one of the secretariats for the Green Street program. Along with the Centrale des syndicats du Québec, CTF will work with the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and Canadian schools to support the Green Street program.
As the national bilingual umbrella organization for teachers in this country, the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) has 15 provincial and territorial Member organizations and one Affiliate Member representing nearly 200,000 teachers across Canada.
CTF is a powerful voice for the teaching profession and advances the cause of education for its Member organizations and teachers by: acting as the collective voice of teachers at the interprovincial, federal and international levels; facilitating the sharing of ideas, knowledge and skills; fostering research; addressing societal issues that affect the health and well-being of children and youth in Canada and abroad; coordinating and conducting international assistance; and cooperating with like-minded organizations, in Canada and elsewhere.
CTF supports education for sustainability, which includes any teaching approach designed to promote understanding of issues of the environment, economy and society and the interconnections among them, and which fosters the knowledge, skills and values needed to participate in appropriate change for a more sustainable future.
The Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ)
The Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) is acting as the French-language secretariat for Green Street as well as the liaison between the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and Québec's French programs and schools.
The CSQ represents some 145,000 members, including more than 100,000 educators.
The main mission of the CSQ is to promote and protect the economic, professional and social interests of the members it represents. This mission is carried out in keeping with the fundamental values of equality, solidarity, social justice, freedom, democracy and cooperation.
The CSQ has committed to education for a sustainable future through the établissements verts Brundtland movement (Brundtland Green Schools). The movement's history has been marked by outstanding events and enriching experiment but, above all, by the day-to-day action, both focused and broad in scope, undertaken by children, youths and adults in the nearly 700 schools that have joined this network since 1993.
Green Street has its roots in supporting programs that actively engage youth in environmental stewardship. Over the years, Green Street has expanded its program themes to include broader issues related to the environment and sustainability. A Green Street program that meets all or most of the Benchmarks for Excellence is actively engaging youth in environmental stewardship over time.
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