Our Wildwood, Summer 2018, Volume 43

The Student Task Force organized a Human Rights Activist Fair for 6th to 12th grade students that helped build awareness of organizations working to end human rights violations.

In the 8th grade environmental

up to help assemble menstrual kits for girls around the world who lose access to education and the comforts of home every month. Students participated in a drive for homeless veterans and wrote notes thanking them for their service. As part of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, students shared information about past genocides and the current Rohingya ethnic cleansing. “I’m proud of the work that we did this year,” says Emily R. ’20. “Our hope is that next year, we can expand the fair into a full-day symposium with guest speakers, workshops, and longer-term project work.” Led by our 12th grade students and their teacher Tim Sekula in the Environmental Change and Policy Senior Seminar, Wildwood is working toward a more sustainable future for our community. Both elementary and middle and upper campuses now have a dual-stream recycle program that makes it easier to sort and reuse consumables, and the school has committed to using biodegradable cutlery, cups, and plates at school events. The school council joined the efforts to reduce plastic bottle waste on campus and will now sell reusable bottles during the opening days of school. In these ways, we are teaching our students to think globally and act locally.

science course, students study how they are connected to the environment through projects focusing on understanding the support systems of human life and the impact their actions have on

the planet. The curriculum includes cycles of matter, ecology, ecological footprints, human population growth, and global climate change, and it culminates with a student-led project focused on making a positive environmental impact on the world. Students planned, created, shot, and edited PSA videos for a prestigious international competition—World of 7 Billion. There were more than 3,000 entries and only 30 finalists, four of which were Wildwood 8th graders. Global citizenship at Wildwood also extends beyond our classrooms. The Student Task Force organized a Human Rights Activist Fair for 6th to 12th grade students that helped build awareness of organizations working to end human rights violations. Students learned about the Days for Girls organization and signed

22