NJ Charter School Conference

Today I attended the New Jersey Public Charter School Association conference in Trenton NJ. It was encouraging to see some great attendance at this conference not only from charter school teachers and administrators, but also various state and local officials, businesses and interested parties. These types of conferences are an important way to help build networks, learn new techniques and advance the educational reform movement.

I was there to conduct a session on sustainable design opportunities for charter schools. We focused on a better understanding of why sustainability is important in schools, what are some of the easy steps you can take to make your school greener and what resources are available to help in the process and economics of making schools green.

All around there was plenty of great discussion, but we need to engage more people. To find out more about NJPCSA or the conference check out their website http://www.njcharters.org/