Although Our Doors Are Closing, We Are Still Re-Certifying
During the first week of January 2014, the Eagle Cove School Board of Trustees and Head of School Laura Kang announced the unanimous board decision to close our school June 2014. This decision was made based on many years of low student population and insufficient funds to sustain the school for future years. Despite this decision, our academic program is at its height. This includes our environmental initiatives. Eagle Cove School has spent a great deal of time the last four years (since our last re-certification) building and enhancing our environmental program. Given that fact, we are continuing forth with our re-certification progress, feeling that re-certification by MAEOE will only verify what we already know: despite our closing, ECS holds as a firm leader both academically & environmentally.
For more on Eagle Cove School's closing, please read the January 10th, 2014 Baltimore Sun Article.
For more on Eagle Cove School's closing, please read the January 10th, 2014 Baltimore Sun Article.
Maryland Green School Summary
At Eagle Cove School, our mission captures the essence of a Maryland Green School:
“Eagle Cove School is a family of students, educators, and parents dedicated to making each child’s early academic experience challenging and joyful. The School provides an environment of trust, tradition, and intellectual discovery. It is our mission to maintain a culture of academic excellence and environmental and community stewardship while fostering respect, responsibility, curiosity, and lifelong learning.
“Eagle Cove School is a family of students, educators, and parents dedicated to making each child’s early academic experience challenging and joyful. The School provides an environment of trust, tradition, and intellectual discovery. It is our mission to maintain a culture of academic excellence and environmental and community stewardship while fostering respect, responsibility, curiosity, and lifelong learning.
Our environmental program is felt at all levels, in every class. As a school, we recycle everything Anne Arundel County does, with bins in every class room right next to near-empty waste baskets. Likewise, we have bins for paper recycling, Capri Sun juice pouches & Elmer’s Glue sticks (which we upcycle to www.terracycle.com, a company dedicated to eliminating waste). We have a compost bucket in each homeroom, we chart our compost output weekly, and several parents and teachers use our outdoor compost bin. As a school community we also recycle printer cartridges, aluminum cans, and burnt-out compact-fluorescent light bulbs for our parent body.
At school we turn off lights on sunny days, and we chart our kilowatt usage. We take notice of (and sometimes write about) global events such as World Water Day, Earth Hour, and Earth Day (which coincides with our school-wide “Earth Week”). On campus we have rain barrels that were painted in art class as well as bird houses and a fish observation tank built in science class. Students routinely hike our nature trail, they have seined the river, and they have built rain gardens and a geodesic dome greenhouse. We raise oysters, terrapins, horseshoe crabs, and emergent grasses to be returned to the Chesapeake Bay. We watch butterfly eggs turn to caterpillars, then chrysalises, then to monarchs in our butterfly garden.
For students and teachers alike at Eagle Cove School, our environmental and community efforts are essential parts to creating active citizens who can effect positive change in the world.
At school we turn off lights on sunny days, and we chart our kilowatt usage. We take notice of (and sometimes write about) global events such as World Water Day, Earth Hour, and Earth Day (which coincides with our school-wide “Earth Week”). On campus we have rain barrels that were painted in art class as well as bird houses and a fish observation tank built in science class. Students routinely hike our nature trail, they have seined the river, and they have built rain gardens and a geodesic dome greenhouse. We raise oysters, terrapins, horseshoe crabs, and emergent grasses to be returned to the Chesapeake Bay. We watch butterfly eggs turn to caterpillars, then chrysalises, then to monarchs in our butterfly garden.
For students and teachers alike at Eagle Cove School, our environmental and community efforts are essential parts to creating active citizens who can effect positive change in the world.