To provide students with meaningful experiences that broaden their horizons and connect the knowledge they gain through the study of Environmental Science to their choices throughout their lives.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide all students with a Science/Math/Technology curriculum emphasizing Environmental Studies. With the assistance of committed staff, families, and community members, all students will gain knowledge, awareness and critical thinking skills through the scientific study of the natural world and its multi-faceted and inter-related systems.
What are the natural (physical and biological) and social (individual, cultural political, technological, governmental and economic) systems in the Coachella Valley area and how do they interact?
What resource use and management issues result from the interactions of the natural and social systems of the Coachella Valley area?
What past, present and future individual, community and political decisions affect the natural and social systems of the Coachella Valley?
What natural and social systems in the Coachella Valley area contribute to the advancement of the fine arts, to the development of recreational opportunities, and to the promotion of esthetic values?
Public school choice is a critical component of No Child Left Behind that offers students in low-performing Title I schools an opportunity to attend higher-quality schools, even as the low-performing school are being improved. Together, school improvement activities and public school choice can provide all students in low-performing Title I schools the opportunity to access a high-quality education. When all students - including students with disabilities and English language learners - are provided high-quality educational options, and when all parents receive enough information to make intelligent choices among these options, public school choice can increase both equity and excellence in education.
The Living Desert
47-900 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert, CA 92260
(760) 346-5694 FAX: (760) 568-9685 www.livingdesert.org
Mike Chedester, Curator of Education
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
P.O. Box 581260, North Palm Springs, CA 92258
(760) 325-4970 (760) 323-3107
Tracey Albrecht
University of California at Berkeley
4523 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
(510) 642-7826 FAX: (510) 643-0520
James D. Slotta, Ph.D, Director, The WISE Project
Consultant, Mr. Tom Azwell
University of Redlands
P.O. Box 3080, 1200 East Colton Avenue
Redlands, CA 92373-0999
(909) 793-2121 FAX: (909) 335-5204 www.redlands.edu
Carol Ann Franklin, Professor, School of Education
Coachella Valley Women for Agriculture
Coachella Valley Chapter
P.O. Box 382, Indio, CA 92202
(760) 779-8600
email: copelandcope@aol.com
Ann Copeland
Coachella Valley Wildbird Center
P.O. Box 10160, 46-500 Van Buren St., Indio, CA 92202
(760) 347-2647 FAX: (760) 775-2299
Linda York, Director
Joshua Tree National Park
9800 Black Rock Canyon Road, Yucca Valley, CA 92284
Educaiton Office (760) 365-2371
email: jotr_education@nps.gov www.nps.gov/jotr
Lorna Sue Lange-Daggs, Educational Specialist
Mother Nature Live!
9841 oakmount Blvd., Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
(760) 251-6776 www.mothernaturelive.com
Joanna Stark
Palm Springs Desert Museum
101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 325-7186
email: info@psmuseum.org www.psmuseum.org
Michelle Bunn, Director
PEAK Energy Coalition
1540 S. Coast Hwy, Suite 204, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
(949) 497-5110
