Educational Leadership:Teaching Social Responsibility:The Window into Green

Educational Leadership:Teaching Social Responsibility:The Window into Green: "May 2009 May 2009 | Volume 66 | Number 8 Teaching Social Responsibility Pages 38-44 The Window into Green Mike Weilbacher With the new wave of interest in the environment, will we finally give students the tools they need to become environmentally literate citizens? In just a few weeks, high school seniors all around the United States will walk proudly across stages, hoisting their diplomas as they graduate from formal K–12 education. As their teachers, we'll look on with some wistfulness, for the world into which they are graduating—one of spiraling financial crises coupled with huge international challenges—is vastly different from the one in which they started their senior year only 10 months ago. But wait, it gets worse. If you place your finger on the pulse of the planet, this is what you'll discover: global surface temperatures rising, glaciers melting, oceans warming, sea levels risi"