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Lise Goddard Receives Educator of the Month Award from Montecito Bank & Trust |
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As Midland's Director of Environmental Programs, Lise oversees the school's environmental education programs. Lise heads the Environmental Advisory Board (made up of students, faculty members and leaders in environmental education including UCSB professors and an advisor to CA's governor), which acts as a guiding body for Midland's Environmental Action Plan.
As a teacher, Lise ensures that students have the opportunity to make decisions for themselves, that they see all sides of the issues, and that students are engaged. Her teaching approach is one of a heuristic model that teaches critical thinking. Students are required to keep journals of their water use on campus, each student plants acorns as part of an ongoing native oak restoration project, and each sophomore class, under Lise's instruction and guidance, adds to Midland’s solar array to power more of the campus by the sun each year. As of 2009, the arrays total 17-kW and power about 15% of the campus's electricity needs. The 7th consecutive array was installed by sophomores in February 2010. Her approach serves as a model for others because students don't only understand concepts and principals, but they are able to apply them at an instructional level for others, such as when she brings students to represent the school at conferences and events such as Santa Barbara's Earth Day. The main product of the annual solar project is not clean kilowatt-hours, but informed students. As educator of the month, Lise received a certificate to display in her classroom and a $50 gift certificate to a restaurant of her choice. |
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