Sustainable Schools for the 21st Century

NAIS believes that in order to survive and thrive in the 21st Century, schools should address sustainability on five dimensions. Below you'll find links to additional research and resources related to each of these areas of sustainability.

Financial Sustainability: becoming more efficient and less costly

Environmental Sustainability: incorporating sustainability practices into teaching and practice; becoming more green and less wasteful

Global Sustainability: becoming more networked internationally and less parochial in outlook

Programmatic Sustainability: becoming more focused on the skills and values that the marketplace of the 21st Century will seek and reward, and less narrowly isolated in a traditional disciplines approach to teaching and learning

Demographic Sustainability: becoming more inclusive and representative of the school-age population and less unapproachable financially and socially

Read more about the origins of NAIS vision for sustainability in the Winter 2005 and Spring 2005 issue of Independent School magazine. View Pat Bassett's presentation about Sustainable Schools for the 21st Century.