http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/ Portland, Maine USA Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/#comment-2557 Olga LaPlante Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:31:52 +0000 http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/#comment-2557 Wonderful job! Congratulations! Proud to know you, and have worked with you! :) Wonderful job! Congratulations! Proud to know you, and have worked with you!

]]> http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/#comment-2556 ann adams Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:32:14 +0000 http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/#comment-2556 Hi Ms. Driscoll, Congratulations on your wonderful initiatives and awards! Teachers can make the biggest difference is the lives of their students and communities! I live in Portland and am working with the cool communities initiative sponsored by the Sierra Club, Maine Lung Association, doctors for Social Responsibility and Maine council of churches. This program attempts to have communities analyze their energy use and create plans to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. Now that the city has created its sustainability plan, I am hoping that we can work to produce some real change to reduce our emissions. At our last meeting in December, I spoke about your school's initiative in creating the geodesic dome and agreed to find out more about what your students are doing regarding energy consumption and alternative energy. Would you or another teacher kindly advise me accordingly? My children graduated from Deering High and at that time I was aware of various schools creating green teams and working toward their own set of goals. Do you have such a team at your school? As a member of the community without children currently in the system, I feel that there is likely a lot happening in our schools regarding climate change and learning about new technologies, as these solutions are vital to our children's future, yet I am totally ignorant of what is being done. This is an area that I think "children as teachers" would lend itself to and be of a huge benefit to our community. Would you kindly update me on your schools current initiatives or direct me to an informative resource? Also kindly advise if your school might like to explore ways in which it could help our community’s work in this area? Thank you, Ann Adams, 56 Mackworth Street, Portland, Maine 04103 774-7989 annadams10@hotmail.com Hi Ms. Driscoll,
Congratulations on your wonderful initiatives and awards! Teachers can make the biggest difference is the lives of their students and communities!
I live in Portland and am working with the cool communities initiative sponsored by the Sierra Club, Maine Lung Association, doctors for Social Responsibility and Maine council of churches. This program attempts to have communities analyze their energy use and create plans to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. Now that the city has created its sustainability plan, I am hoping that we can work to produce some real change to reduce our emissions. At our last meeting in December, I spoke about your school’s initiative in creating the geodesic dome and agreed to find out more about what your students are doing regarding energy consumption and alternative energy. Would you or another teacher kindly advise me accordingly?
My children graduated from Deering High and at that time I was aware of various schools creating green teams and working toward their own set of goals. Do you have such a team at your school? As a member of the community without children currently in the system, I feel that there is likely a lot happening in our schools regarding climate change and learning about new technologies, as these solutions are vital to our children’s future, yet I am totally ignorant of what is being done. This is an area that I think “children as teachers” would lend itself to and be of a huge benefit to our community. Would you kindly update me on your schools current initiatives or direct me to an informative resource? Also kindly advise if your school might like to explore ways in which it could help our community’s work in this area?
Thank you, Ann Adams, 56 Mackworth Street, Portland, Maine 04103 774-7989 annadams10@hotmail.com

]]> http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/#comment-2555 Libby Barnes Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:28:27 +0000 http://blogs.portlandschools.org/ppsd/2008/01/22/lincoln-teacher-wins-science-award/#comment-2555 That's awesome! Hopefully I will get her next year as a science teacher! Congrats! That’s awesome! Hopefully I will get her next year as a science teacher! Congrats!

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