Date
Attendees
Prof. Barbara Minsker
- Prof. Mei-po Kwan
- Prof. William Sullivan
- John Watson, MWRD
- Meg Kelly, Space to grow project manager
- Jaime Zaplatosch, Openlands
Meeting notes and issues
- ‘Space to grow’ project
- 2015 construction plan: June 23, 2015 ~ Oct, 2015 for six schools
- 2015 planning: Working with five different stakeholder groups for each school(administrators, teachers & staff, students, parents and community members)
- Next six schools for 2016 will be selected on May this year.
- 2016~2019 construction: Six schools a year (total 34 schools with green infrastructure at the end of 2019)
- Current evaluation plan for 2014 schools: Impact to students and community on physical activity and different changes (attention and behavior) to the culture inside school. Also, stormwater monitoring.
- Pre- and post-data collection from two schools among 2014 schools - 16 out of three class rooms at Morrill and 35 at Grissom for a week.
- Accelerometer data before and after improving school yards
- Oral and written self-report about students’ physical activity for matching accelerometer data
- Community surveys about events in green infrastructure
- Research design
- Including impact to students in classroom when they watch green infrastructure outside
- Taking into account possible components to play around (e.g., new playground, green infrastructure and garden)
- Need to do preliminary study
- Use of iPhone: Not allowed to bring iPhones by school policy.
- Matching demographic, social economic status and school area for school selection