Connolly Issues Youth Environmental Network Awards

Editor's Note: The following is a press release.

On March 7, Councilor John Connolly welcomed Boston Public School teachers and Boston Youth Environmental Network awardees to West Roxbury for an awards dinner at .  West on Centre owner Joe Greene spoke about their environmental initiatives at the restaurant, and teachers and partner organizations shared their award-winning initiatives.  Councilor Connolly, the Chair of the Council Committee on Education and Vice Chair of the Committee on Environment and Health, presented each awardee with a Boston City Council resolution recognizing their achievement.  

The awardees are: 

Green Teacher Award - Lower Elementary School (grades K-2): Kathy D’Andrea, Mission Hill School – Grades Kindergarten and 1st 

Green Teacher Award - Upper Elementary School (grades 3-5): KathyAnn Moody, John F. Kennedy Elementary School – K2-5th Grade 

Green Teacher Award - Middle School (grades 6-8): Fiona Bennie, The Horace Mann School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Green Teacher Award - High School (grades 9-12): Marcy Ostberg, Boston Day and Evening Academy 

Get Out and Learn Award for School-Community Partnership: The Mary M.B. Wakefield Charitable Trust & Conley Elementary School 

Exemplary Environmental Education Program Partner: “e” inc. 

Green After School Program: University of Massachusetts Boston Upward Bound, Get Fresh Crew

Exemplary Youth Environmental Employment Program: Branching Out, National Park Service - The Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation

The Boston Youth Environmental Network (www.environetwork.org) is a comprehensive system of organizations providing hands-on environmental education and employment opportunities for children and youth.  Their mission is to align existing programs and create new models of partnership to form a pathway from kindergarten through high school of formal and informal environmental education experiences and relevant, hands-on employment opportunities.