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Congratulationstothe2016DCRecycleRight!CompetitionWinnersandParticipants

DepartmentofGeneralServicesRecognizes26DCschoolsforpromotingrecycling

(Washington DC)—The Department of General Services (DGS) congratulates the 26 Districtschoolsthatparticipatedinthe2016DCRecycleRight!Competition,whichispartoftheOfficeoftheStateSuperintendentofEducation’s(OSSE)GrowingHealthySchoolsMonthcelebrationinOctober.The second annual competition was inspired by the Green Schools Alliance’s Green CupChallenge.Duringthecompetition,studentsinbothDistrictColumbiaPublicSchools(DCPS)anda DC public charter school used math skills in a real-world application to conduct weeklyclassroombinsurveysinwhichstudentscountedthenumberofrecyclingandtrashbinsusedcorrectlyandincorrectly.Studentsandteachersthentookactiontoimprovebinsurveyresultsoverthecourseofthecompetition.“We are very proud of the continuing enthusiasm demonstrated by schools across all eightwardsforrecyclingrightintheirschools,andoftheincreasingsophisticationofthestrategiestheyusedtosucceed,”saidGreerGillis,DGSDirector.“Thisyearwesawschoolsbuildonpriorsuccessbyemployingstrategiesidentifiedduringlastyear’scompetition,”saidZachDobelbower,DGSInterimDirectorofSustainabilityandEnergy.“Studentsdemonstratedthetransformativepowerofpeer-to-peerlearning.Asacity,wealsolearnbysharingreplicablesustainabilitystrategieswithpeersacrosstheUnitedStates.”Forexample,SchoolWithoutWalls@Francis-Stevensorganizedstudentrecyclingmonitorsand“recyclingheroes,”whopresentedtoyoungerstudentsaboutcorrectrecyclingprocedures.“Thisisrealmath,realscience,realdevelopmentofasenseofcommunity,andstudentabilitytomakeadifferenceintheirschool,”saidKarinHarrison,theleadteacherforthecompetitionatSchoolWithoutWalls.

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Two students at BallouHigh School,which placed 1st inMost Improved, demonstrated theirinitiativebyvolunteeringtopresenttherecyclingprogramtoclassroomsthroughoutBallou.Student recycling clubs and school recycling committees were established throughout theDistrictasaresultofthecompetition.ThestudentrecyclingclubatWilsonHighSchoolstartedwithtwostudentsvolunteeringtoconductbinsurveysduringthefirstweekofthecompetitionandgrewtoanimpressive20studentsbytheendofthecompetition.Tyler Elementary School’s recycling team customized recycling bins and created stickers toreward studentswho recycled correctly. Burroughs Elementary School’s recycling committeeeducatedtheschoolaboutacceptablerecyclableitemsandbeganusingrecyclingsuppliesthatwerepreviouslyintheschool’sstorage.CardozoEducationCampusstudentsadoptedthebinsurveyworksheettosurveybinlabelsandlinersinadditiontocorrectness.Cardozostudentsalsoparticipatedinafulllesson,createdbyteacher Molly Smith, during which they made homemade paper to learn firsthand theimportanceofrecyclingright.Overall, the averageof all schools’ bin surveys increased from65percent correct during thefirstweekofthecompetitionto82percentcorrectduringthelastweek,animprovementof17percentagepoints.Whilemost recycling competitions rewardparticipants for recyclingmorebasedonvolumeorweight, theRecycleRightCompetitionrewardsparticipants for ‘recyclingright’basedonpercentageofcorrectbins,which ismore in linewith theSustainableDCzerowastegoal.Schools that are interested in conducting the competition activity on their own can findinstructionsontheDGS–HealthySchoolspage,here:http://dgs.dc.gov/node/882692.Growing Healthy Schools Month celebrates the D.C. Healthy Schools Act in public schoolsthroughouttheDistrict.DuringtheannualcelebrationeveryOctober,schoolstaffcoordinatesactivities aimed at engaging students in conversations about nutrition, the environment,recycling,andbeingactive.TheD.C.RecycleRight!CompetitionispartoftheinternationalGreenCupRecycleChallenge,aprogramoftheGreenSchoolsAlliance.The full listofD.C. schools thatparticipated in theGrowingHealthySchoolsMonth recyclingcompetitionactivityincludes:

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-HighestPerformance-First-Second-Third&HonorableMentions PercentageofCorrectBins1stBrooklandMiddleSchool97%2ndBurroughsElementarySchool 92%3rdJanneyElementarySchool86%HMDorothyIHeightElementarySchool80%HMKeyElementarySchool 80%-MostImproved-First-Second-Third&HonorableMentions PercentagePointIncrease1stBallouHighSchool70percentagepoints2ndRandleHighlandsElementarySchool52percentagepoints3rdTylerElementarySchool 50percentagepointsHMDrewElementarySchool 48percentagepointsHMCardozoEducationCampus32percentagepoints-MostReplicableSolution-First-Second-Third&HonorableMentions ReplicableSolutionBallouHighSchoolstudentpresentationsSchoolWithoutWalls@Francis-StevensstudentrecyclingmonitorsCardozoEducationCampus5Elessonplan

- AnacostiaHighSchool(Ward8)- BallouHighSchool(Ward8)- BenjaminBannekerHighSchool(Ward1)*- BrooklandMiddleSchool(Ward5)- BurroughsElementarySchool(Ward5)*- CardozoEducationCampus(Ward1)*- DealMiddleSchool(Ward3)*- DorothyIHeightElementarySchool(Ward4)- DrewElementarySchool(Ward7)- GarfieldElementarySchool(Ward8)*

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- HoustonElementarySchool(Ward7)- J.O.WilsonElementarySchool(Ward6)*- JanneyElementarySchool(Ward3)- KeyElementarySchool(Ward3)*- KIPPDC:HeightsAcademy(Ward8)- Ludlow-TaylorElementarySchool(Ward6)- NoyesElementarySchool(Ward5)- PhelpsACEHighSchool(Ward5)- RandleHighlandsElementarySchool(Ward7)*- RooseveltHighSchool(Ward4)- SchoolWithoutWalls@Francis-Stevens(Ward2)*- School-Within-School@Goding(Ward6)- TylerElementarySchool(Ward6)- VanNessElementarySchool(Ward6)*- WoodrowWilsonHighSchool(Ward3)- YouthServicesCenter(Ward5)

*Denotesschoolsthatparticipatedinthe2015competitionaswell

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