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Every Kid Outdoors: Free National Park Passes for Fourth Graders

by WFIS | Jun 9, 2025 | Education News, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Student Resources, WFIS News

The National Park Service sponsors the Every Kid Outdoors program, which provides fourth-grade students and their families with free access to discover America’s wildlife, resources, and history for free…for a whole year! All of America’s fourth-grade students are...

Waste Not Washington School Awards program

by WFIS | Mar 24, 2025 | Agencies and Committees, Education News, Environmental and Sustainability Education, WFIS News

Congratulations to Montessori Academy at Spring Valley, one of the schools chosen by the Department of Ecology as a Waste Not WA School Award winner for their program tackling food waste through a pumpkin patch in the 2024-25 school year! The Department of Ecology is...

2025 President’s Environmental Student and Teacher Awards

by WFIS | Dec 23, 2024 | Agencies and Committees, Education News, Environmental and Sustainability Education, WFIS News

The EPA’s Office of Environmental Education is accepting applications for the 2025 President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) and Presidential Innovation Awards for Environmental Educators (PIAEE). Applications for both awards are due by Monday, January 15, 2025....

Energy Star K-12 Energy Efficiency Student Toolkit

by WFIS | Nov 4, 2024 | Education News, Environmental and Sustainability Education, WFIS News

Energy Star’s new toolkit is designed for K-12 students who want to jump-start or enhance their school’s energy management program. Students learn how to benchmark and understand their school’s energy use, conduct an energy efficiency treasure hunt to...

Health & Wellness news for private schools

by WFIS | Dec 11, 2023 | DOH, Education News, Environmental and Sustainability Education, WFIS News

DOH releases Ventilation Guidance Nov 2023 The new document Ventilation and Air Quality for Reducing Transmission of Airborne Illnesses does not include any new requirements but parallels the standards we are seeing in county health school facility inspections, so it...

Tacoma Pierce County Health needs your voice

by WFIS | Dec 11, 2023 | Agencies and Committees, Environmental and Sustainability Education, WFIS News

Schools in the Tacoma/ Pierce district received notification from the Environmental Health Department that the department will adopt new regulations into the Environmental Health Code. They state that the new regulations will allow them to “Improve regulatory...
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