Based on best-practice international research and Gould Group's practical experience with thousands of schools, Sustainability Wiz guides schools through the steps essential to incorporate sustainability in meaningful ways into curricula, operations and culture - and from there into homes.
Using a range of fun online tools and resources, engaging and empowering activities, and through a community of support, Sustainability Wiz provides a one-stop shop for schools and their wider communities.
Importantly Sustainability Wiz allows students from around the world to engage in addressing climate change through actions in their school and the community and tackle issues such as carbon footprint, and water and energy usage to create schools for the future.
This licensed program is available to schools internationally and can be made available for other organisations. Schools can explore self-funding options using some of the savings made on resource usage bills, or by building sponsorship partnerships with local businesses or government.
What Sustainability Wiz Offers
Bringing Sustainability Education to Remote Areas
Remote and rural Australian schools often miss out because it is just too expensive for environmental education service providers to provide face to face program delivery. The Sustainability Wiz distance learning technology can offer these opportunities equally to schools anywhere in Australia.
Creating National and International Communities
Sustainability Wiz offers quality resources on environmental sustainability and ongoing professional development to support schools participating in long-term sustainability projects, and connects schools nationally and Internationally, enabling best practice sharing and mentoring capabilities.
Sustainability Wiz Features
Continuous on-line delivery of teacher and trainer professional development and student learning programs over the Sustainability Wiz platform
Resources for schools to initiate, audit, monitor, and embed sustainability behaviours and achievements into their culture and curriculum
Community fundraising and media how to kits
Web based tools to share and celebrate results between schools nationally and internationally including:
Data benchmarking
Interactive chat rooms
Threaded discussions
Sharing case studies
Feature from the Schoolgrounds Module:-
Design a customised plan for your schoolgrounds with our unique online landscape planning tool
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Data Benchmarking Tools
Sustainability Wiz will also offer innovative data benchmarking tools to monitor the economic and environmental estimates directly, quantify the return on investment and index against other state, national or international organisations.
A sample of the benchmarking tools planned for Sustainability Wiz
The Sustainability Wiz Partnership
Sustainability Wiz combines two highly successful Australian educational frameworks:
Gould Group's Sustainability Education Programs. Gould has a successful history in developing and delivering effective sustainability education programs for nearly 100 years, and
Etech Group’s Studywiz - a highly scalable and flexible Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) System which has been deployed all over the world. StudyWiz provides a flexible, highly intuitive, easy to use and powerful tool for on-line distance education. This highly scalable platform can deliver virtual learning to over 100,000 students. It allows for customized individual learning programs, threaded discussion groups, special sections for students, teachers, and parents and a 3D virtual gallery for sharing of multi-media content.
