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Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (PSJA ISD) schools and departments are uniting to systemically adopt the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the 2023-2024 school year.
As part of these efforts, PSJA ISD will continue integrating the SDGs into its curriculum to equip students with pertinent real-world knowledge and hands-on experienceS crucial to help them compete at a global level.
PSJA ISD aims to emphasize sustainability at every level through a systemic approach led by a committee of district leaders from various departments including Curriculum, Human Resources, Operations, Health Services, Construction, Transportation, Child Nutrition, Police, and Communications, to name a few.
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Integration of the SDGs into the curriculum includes instruction starting as early as Pre-K 3, where students may read "The Little Red Hen" and then go plant seeds in the school's garden and then reread the story when they water the sprouting plants. These efforts are in collaboration with SOL Education Learning Group. SOL provides an in-depth instructional method that embeds 21st-Century Proficiencies/global (17 SDGs) into the state curriculum (TEKS) through a 3-tiered project-based learning system.
PSJA ISD plans to implement ‘cross-pollination strategies,’ which may involve students learning about the Life Cycle through their Science curriculum and then making connections by going to the school's butterfly garden to witness caterpillars transform into butterflies. Then, through English Language Arts, students may be asked to develop their writing and grammar skills by writing an essay about their observations in the garden.
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PSJA ISD campuses, departments unite to adopt United Nations' 17 Goals
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (PSJA ISD) schools and departments are uniting to systemically adopt the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As part of these efforts, PSJA ISD will continue integrating the SDGs into its curriculum to equip students with pertinent real-world knowledge and hands-on experiences crucial to help them compete at a global level, during the 2023-2024 school year.
