home community ecostewardship about us

education*energy*environment

framework

The Framework to Advance Environmental Stewardship within the Calgary Board of Education describes the course of action to make the CBE a model of local and global environmental stewardship.

The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) has a considerable legacy of leadership and success in environmental education and energy management on both an individual school level and at a system level. Over the past couple of years the CBE has recognized that our efforts must be more strategic to ensure current investment levels produce increasingly significant results.

In June of 2006, the Education*Energy*Environment Team was created to provide leadership to strategic initiatives within the CBE dedicated to:

• Calculating and reviewing the organizations ecological footprint and use the results to reduce the impact the CBE has on the environment.
• Creating synergy across service units and departments regarding environmental practices and ethics.
• Introducing operational environmental literacy and associated decision making processes.
• Employing a triad leadership model intent on developing bridges between schools, facilities operations and community engagement efforts to support environmental stewardship.

This document is based on the collective wisdom of 21 people from both inside and outside of the CBE who contributed time and expertise to:

• Summarize a rationale for this project
• Develop a vision and mission

Vision: The Calgary Board of Education is a model of local and global environmental stewardship.

Mission: The Education*Energy*Environment team provides leadership to advance environmental literacy through strategic facility, curricular and community initiatives.

• Generate four high level outcome statements
• Operational Environmental literacy is integral to the culture of the Calgary Board of Education.
• The Calgary Board of Education co-operates with external initiatives that support advancing environmental stewardship.
• The Calgary Board of Education (EcoTeam) provides strategic leadership, resources, and services to schools and associated communities that advance environmental stewardship.
• The Calgary Board of Education is guided by its ecological footprint indicators in efforts to advance environmental stewardship.
• Define the associated short, medium and long term outcomes, barriers and opportunities, resources, baseline analysis, strategies and performance measures that support achieving the vision
• Chart an implementation plan for success on outcomes

The CBE’s Executive Limitations and Educational Ends Statements have also been reviewed to consider how they guide and inform this work.

This document will be reviewed and revised annually to ensure it remains a relevant and effective tool for advancing operational environmental literacy objectives. Annual workplans will be generated from this framework to address projects and initiatives. The overall plan will be revised to reflect progress on these outcomes.

To review the full report, visit Framework to Advance Environmental Stewardship within the Calgary Board of Education (PDF).

Web Administrator: L. Diemert
Last Modified: September 24, 2011