Laying down a challenge

One of the touchstones of this project is about being innovative and trying new things that haven’t been developed elsewhere in the Enviroschools network – pioneering is the word used on the MoU! At our latest meeting we talked about how we wanted participants in this project to try some new things.  Whether these are successful or not is part of our learning. An important post script to that statement is that what we try needs to sit within the project direction of developing innovative, action and learning projects.

The title of the project taking the next step points to challenging ourselves through this project to consider what is the next step in terms of the Enviroschools kaupapa. So for example we know that we can create wonderful gardens on site in our schools however, if we are taking the next step – what does that look like? Will all of our learning and action take place within the confines of the school site or will there be a merging of school and community other than on the school site? Growing food is challenging once we start looking at on-going supply. Therefore, how can we broaden our engagement and influence in a way that involves more people, participation and more places. In what ways can we explore alternative ways of accessing and sharing kai? Are we doing things that haven’t been tried/developed before through the Enviroschools network?