Mission and vision
Our Vision
Integrate nature into the heart of learning to improve the quality of education and address the environmental crisis, using Costa Rica’s education system as a living innovation lab for the world.
Our Mission
To educate and empower students, educators and families as Guardians of Nature from their schools and homes through the collaboration and collective impact of the government, private sector, and civil society
Our Approach
We develop scalable and replicable models for Ministries of Education, starting with Costa Rica, that advance sustainability across four key pillars:
Teacher Training – empower educators to lead sustainability initiatives
Curriculum Integration – link subjects to environmental action
Student Engagement – inspire students to take active roles in sustainability
Greening School Campuses – transform schools into living examples of sustainable practices
Conceptual Framework
1. Address legislation: Top-down approach, ensuring that we align our strategies to advance national and global policies and plans.
2. Focus on human behavior: Redouble bottom-up efforts, recognizing that real change comes from individual and community action, not just policies.
3. Put the main audience in the driver’s seat: school communities as agents of change.
4. Apply an impact data collection process 5. Iterate and learn by continuously refining methodologies and strategies based on lessons learned. 6. Harness the power of incentives. 7. Adopt a systemic, scalable, and long-term approach.
Strategy
1. Interaction: Develop or strengthen mechanisms to connect people, resources, information, experiences, and materials, bridging nature with education.
2. Capacity development: Enhance professional and technical capacity to design, implement, and monitor the integration of nature into education systems.
3. Participation for local action: Stimulate and strengthen active participation in integrating nature into education, empowering teachers and students to become Guardians of Nature.
4. Mass Communication: Strengthen systematic and integrated communication strategies, tools, and methods to raise awareness, understanding, and a sense of responsibility in connecting nature with education.
