Sustainable Projects with Richard Kincaid Transformative Principal 216

Richard Kincaid Twitter is EcoRise’s Chief Innovation Officer and is the lead designer for project-based learning professional development program, which integrates sustainability & design thinking methodologies into the Buck Institute's PBL framework. Richard has extensive experienced in K-12 public education, as a former CTE director, campus leader, and teacher in Texas. Richard's linked in profile is here: Linkedin

• Hill elementary eco-audit
• Green building and performance measures. Aikens high school action plan.
• Ongoing improvements to make sustainable projects.
• How to teach kids to get in touch with the right people.
• Design studio - helps teachers facilitate conversations in their classroom.
• Empower students to seek out the right people.
• Microgrants for kids.
• Up to $500 per student project.
• Small enough that kids can actually do something.
• Looking for every reason possible to fund an application.
• The average project funded is about $470. Average return on investment is about $4500 of bottom-line savings.
• At the end of the day, we want kids to be engaged.
• Put budgets together and then put it out to a group of people who can do something.
• how to be Create a Culture where you give people permissions to fail.

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