River Rangers complete training, prepare to teach

Each school year, The Greenway Foundation works with ten juniors and seniors from KIPP Denver Collegiate High School. These students are selected to train as environmental educators through teaching on SPREE excursions, helping at a day of SPREE holiday camp, and participating in Greenway Leadership Corps (GLC) events. 

 Our new River Rangers just finished training with us at Johnson Habitat Park, where they will help at camps, and Overland Pond Park, where they will help teach all of the activities in our 5th grade excursions. Training included an overview of environmental education, their roles and responsibilities as interns, and several team building challenges where they had to communicate and work together to succeed. As you can see from the pictures above, they rose to the occasion.

The River Rangers will assist SPREE staff on four excursions during the school year. Their first one will be in two weeks, and we could not ask for a more excited and entertaining group of students to act as leaders and educators for 5th graders.