The Boston Green Academy impacts every student, and teacher that walks through the school door by teaching them Active Hope. Active Hope is the ” response we make, and the degree to which we believe they count, [an] are shaped by the way we think and feel about hope” (Macy & Johnstone 2). The way they do this is by incorporating the four key aspects of sustainability.

  1. The school improves people’s quality of life and well-being by being a very inclusive school. The school currently has a rate 34% of its students that have some type of disability, but they are all treated the same and learn together. Also, the curriculum is designed to get the kids interacted with their community and even have a whole week in their school year that focus with getting out in the city of Boston and getting hands on learning in the city based of their interest.
  2. The school meets the needs of both present and future generations by starting to teach the young students’ sustainable practices because “when you teach little kids how to recycle properly early in their lives, they generally keep that behavior as they go forward” (James Jaquart).
  3. They also teach justice and equity in terms of the fact they recognize that these students are all coming from different backgrounds, and having things in place to teach everyone no matter their background or upbringing they are all treated equally. Which is helping produce young adults who are more mindful of people and what’s going on in their society.
  4. They also are teaching how to live within ecosystem limits buy having hands on learning in learning how to garden in their community and learning about things like how to minimize one’s carbon footprint and the use of compost bins.