Bringing Nature To Schools
For the past two years, Leave No Child Inside - Greater Cincinnati has played an important role in the Cincinnati Public Schools'Fifth Quarter program. Unlike summer school, Fifth Quarter is voluntary. Aimed at closing the achievement gap, participating schools offer academics in the morning, but the afternoons are fun - filled with enrichment opportunities that students might not otherwise experience. Leave No Child Inside has coordinated free nature and environmental-based programs and field trips for CPS students during the month of June, and has also encouraged schools to conduct programs out-of-doors at school or at a nearby park whenever possible.
We are now expanding the support for Cincinnati Public Schools to encourage a closer, more customized relationship between schools and nature organizations via the Nature Partner Program. So far, eight organizations have volunteered to serve as Nature Partners to a specific school or schools. Advantages to this are many - closer alignment with academics at the school, closer relationships with teachers and students, and in many, cases, added services like outdoor classrooms and free field trips. Participating organizations are the Cincinnati Park Board, the Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, the Foundation for Ohio River Education, Greenacres, Hamilton County Recycling & Solid Waste District, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Mill Creek Restoration and the Ohio River Foundation.
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