Principals, Parents, and Teachers love Ocean Warriors!
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It is with great pleasure that I write this letter of recommendation for our Ocean Warriors third grade program. It has proven to be an outstanding addition to our educational program and has truly changed the third grade environmental advocacy culture... The third graders have happily engaged with the project based learning opportunities that OW offers. Their final projects are appreciated by everyone on our campus, especially our Green Team and Zero Waste Marin partners. We, the staff of Glenwood, wholeheartedly recommend that this program continue here, as well as spread to as many schools as possible. - Kim Goodhope, Principal, Glenwood Elementary School |
For elementary schools that are ready to take the next step in environmental education and leadership for their school and students, Ocean Warriors is the program. My students have happily given up their lunches once a week to meet, discuss environmental issues, make plans and do work around the school and community that have a real impact on our bay and oceans. The students are learning more each day about recycling, trash, our plastic challenges and are looking at the world around them in a different way. They are becoming advocates in their community, for their environment. - Mike Taylor, Principal, Coleman Elementary School, San Rafael |
Teaching my 11th and 12th grade students about the threat to our oceans’ health from plastic is an important part of my curriculum. I was shocked at their lack of knowledge about this human-caused crisis in our ocean. It made me think that we might need more ocean plastic pollution education at elementary and junior high levels. I am so glad that All One Ocean is doing plastic pollution awareness at these school levels. - April Tucker, Marine Biology Teacher, Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley Amgen Awardee for Science Teaching Excellence |
I would like to share with you my thoughts and feelings about how All One Ocean is facilitating the kind of experiential learning I would like to see more of in our schools. My son enjoyed his involvement and so did I. First and foremost the kids had a blast. They immediately understood that they were taking a leadership role in their school community and had been given agency to make meaningful and positive change to their immediate environment. They understood that these school clean-up projects were theirs and they took creative ownership of them. I watched 30+ third graders engage in problem identification, goal setting, planning and implementation, with laughter and mutual support. All One Ocean is providing the structure for learning and some gentle guidance, while not being too directive
All One Ocean is teaching kids important concepts like ecological sustainability and environmental stewardship in very real and tangible ways. The kids were engaged and fully participating, in a way that looked an awful lot like play, but had obvious educational benefit.
Another thing that impressed me about All One Ocean, was its ability to generate collaboration among primary school students. Team building and peer support was highly successful. Different groups of students with different tasks and responsibilities came together to accomplish common goals. The kids understood that although these were only the first steps to cleaning up their school and ultimately the planet, it was their capacity to organize behind a common set of ideals which was important. They really got it and were genuinely excited.
- Will Coley, Parent and Ocean Warriors Parent Volunteer, Glenwood Elementary School, San Rafael
All One Ocean is teaching kids important concepts like ecological sustainability and environmental stewardship in very real and tangible ways. The kids were engaged and fully participating, in a way that looked an awful lot like play, but had obvious educational benefit.
Another thing that impressed me about All One Ocean, was its ability to generate collaboration among primary school students. Team building and peer support was highly successful. Different groups of students with different tasks and responsibilities came together to accomplish common goals. The kids understood that although these were only the first steps to cleaning up their school and ultimately the planet, it was their capacity to organize behind a common set of ideals which was important. They really got it and were genuinely excited.
- Will Coley, Parent and Ocean Warriors Parent Volunteer, Glenwood Elementary School, San Rafael
Our Student Ocean Warrior Testimonials
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“It helps other people learn if we show them how to take care of our world.” - Carla “I like it, but I miss my recess, but it’s worth it because it’s better to do this than to have fish dying in the ocean.” - Pablo and Luca “We help save the environment and we learn a lot, like about recycling, that I didn’t know about.” - Lilah “Ocean Warriors is good because you don’t need to let the animals in the ocean die. And we help our environment.” - Maria Jose |
“Ocean Warriors is great because you’re learning how to keep the environment clean.” - Dylan "OW is fun because you are learning while making a difference." - Soren “Ocean Warriors is great because you get to help animals and fish in the water. If you don’t help them, they could choke on the plastic and die.” - Josie “I really like doing this because I am helping animals and helping the environment at the same time.” - Addie |
“I like doing this because I don’t like when the fish die.” - William “I am enjoying Ocean Warriors. Nicole is teaching us what to put in the compost, recycling and garbage bins and the consequences of doing this wrong.” - Mason “The Ocean Warriors is pretty fun because at lunch you get to do projects that help the earth and not make it be a big mess in the ocean and not have garbage everywhere in the whole entire world.” - Shiloh “It’s just a great program.” -Jaela |