School District: Shoreline
School Location: Lake Forest Park
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: September 2013

Level One of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2016

Waste reduction and recycling (level one)

• Brookside Elementary School achieved a recycling rate of 67 percent.
• Students created a recycling video and educated classmates about what can and cannot be recycled.
• Green Team students taught each classroom how to recycle, and signs were placed on recycling bins listing what items can be recycled.
• Brookside placed recycling containers in each classroom and in the lunchroom, and started to recycle milk cartons.
• Para-educator Lori Gamman and custodian Ranee Gigrich trained students to be lunchroom monitors and developed a schedule for students to monitor each lunch period.
• To reduce paper use, assignments were posted online instead of printed.

For more information about the school’s conservation achievements and participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:

Patty Hansen, teacher
patty.hansen@shorelineschools.org

Lori Gamman, para-educator
lori.gamman@shorelineschools.org