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Garrison School: A Holistic Community Resource Integrating Nature and Learning

Garrison will serve as a model school that inspires students, parents, and the community by fostering innovative educational practices and strong connections with nature. With a thoughtfully designed schoolyard functioning as an urban park, Garrison will cater to the needs of both students during school hours and the community afterward. By revitalizing the building and grounds, Garrison aims to enhance the learning environment, boost community pride, and contribute to better health and local ecology, all while supporting the district's financial stability and promoting Sustainable DC initiatives.

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Garrison School: A Holistic Community Resource Integrating Nature and Learning

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  1. GIP - Holistic vision (grounds + building) • Garrison will be a school that draws its students, prospective parents and the community in. • Garrison will be a school that encourages looking/seeing/thinking out of the box (of a school building, literally). • Garrison will be a school where our relationship with nature is a key to learning and where the nature surrounding it will be a nurturing environment in which to learn. • Garrison’s schoolyard will also be an urban park, a neighborhood park, meeting the needs of the school during school hours and the needs of the community outside school hours - Garrison’s schoolyard has the space to fulfill this potential, unlike other schools in downtown DC. • By renovating the building to link with the re-visioned schoolyard, the entire school (building and grounds) become a more purposefully conceived community resource.

  2. GIP - Beneficiaries • Current students and their families - enhanced learning environment and pride in innovative school • Prospective students and their families - no need to trek to distant schools or move to different neighborhoods • Community - gathering spaces and a strong school will help create a more anchored community that goes beyond the transient community attracted to the area by the current urban planning • Sports enthusiasts - access to top notch facilities (outside of school hours) • Everyone’s health - urban park, orchards, community gardens, farmers markets lead to better air quality and help form better eating habits • District finances - better schools increase property values and therefore property taxes • DC’s image - Garrison is key to Mayor’s Sustainable DC policy

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