Strategies for Integrating Sustainability into Technology and Engineering Education
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Teachers, it’s time to add another tool to your teaching toolbox!! This hour-long session will focus on adding the sustainable design and engineering mindset as a tool for use in all of your projects and lessons without adding more work. An interdisciplinary team of educators will provide examples of sustainability in action for all levels (elementary, middle, high, and post secondary) to jumpstart the interactive discussion. Participants will be asked to think sustainably, and encourage others to do the same. You will be challenged to select an existing lesson or project and complete a slight modification to include the sustainable design and engineering mindset.
Presented by Members of the Falls Church City (VA) Public Schools Interdisciplinary Team.
Kenny George teaches Design and Engineering at Meridian. Kenny has been a secondary educator for 17 years and has taught in the fields of Visual Art, Business, and Technology Education. Kenny holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Akron, and a Masters of Fine Arts from The George Washington University.
Ray Wu-Rorrer, Ed.D., is a design, technology, engineering, sustainability, and energy educator at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School and Meridian High School. He can be reached at wurorrerr@fccps.org.
Carey Pollack MAEd; NBCT, is an Earth and Environmental Science IB educator at Meridian High School. Her scientific training is in Geology (BS), as well as the Geographic and Cartographic Sciences (MS). She can be reached at pollackc@fccps.org.
Peter M. Mecca, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Maryland Global Campus and an environmental biologist. His areas of interest include STEM, climate change education, and stream monitoring. He can be reached at peter.mecca@faculty.umgc.edu or pmmecca@gmail.com.
Tosin Adetoro MAEd; NBCT, is the Sustainability Coordinator at Meridian High School. She also teachers Physics and Design. Some of Tosin’s accomplishments include 2019 Teacher of the Year for the Steele Chapter of AFA, 2019 Blue Angels Key Person/Educator of Influence for the DMV region, starred in an educator spotlight video on CNN, Falls Church Education Foundation Super Grant recipient for multiple years, and most recently 2023-2024 Falls Church City Public Schools Teacher of the Year. She can be reached at adetorot@fccps.org