Integrating Nature by Discovery, Inquiry
and Going Outdoors.
Welcome to MyIndigo.net, your community for environmental literacy advancement. INDIGO works, and it works for all students regardless of their background or learning abilities.
Seven years of eye-popping data, obtained in a statewide selected middle school pilot program, supports that Project INDIGO meets and enhances academic and process standards across the curriculum. INDIGO develops authentic learning through engagement and deeper level thinking frameworks, lessons, activities and service both within, and beyond the classroom walls. Teachers gain more confidence and skills as classroom management improves.
The study of natural and social systems interactions and interrelationships form the relevant and rigorous context for instruction and learning. The school campus and community connects kids to curricula, the classroom, and the world in which they live.
Initial professional development, and sustained technical support, is crucial with any innovation. Learn about Project INDIGO and how we can help you develop and launch this project within your public or private schools, church groups, environmental and nature centers, parks, and for pre-service teachers too. We can help you find creative ways to apply it to your classroom, and share your successes with others.
We will be expanding this website dramatically through 2011 to incorporate community areas, conversation threads, new videos, and exciting opportunities to get involved. We’re seeking sponsors with a passion for environmental education. Please contact us for more information, or to join our effort today.
The Curriculum
Project INDIGO is a multi-faceted innovation, with proven strategies, that uses the local environment and community as the integrating theme for learning across the curriculum.
Relationships, relevance, rigor, and reflection are key guiding principles that take students beyond the walls, in an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and student-centered approach. INDIGO promotes real-world investigations, critical-thinking, service projects, teaming, communication, and environmental literacy.
Excellent supplemental curricula and materials provide teachers and students the backdrop that leads to systems thinking, clues, investigations, insights, engagement, and personal meaning. This process produces authentic learning with measurable outcomes. Student achievement, attitudes, attendance, civic responsibility, and environmental literacy improve as academic and process standards are effectively met, but in a different and creative way.
The Documentary
A unique INDIGO documentary project will highlight real teachers and students, from lesson plans to testimonies, and provide comprehensive teacher training DVD’s that reveal INDIGO’s best practices and core successes. Educator’s everywhere can learn how to implement Project INDIGO within their own communities regardless of location, demographics, or student learning abilities.
Project INDIGO aims to provide innovative and effective instructional strategies and techniques to educators nationwide that includes schools, community organizations, government agencies, universities, and colleges. The documentary will focus on initiatives being undertaken by pilot schools throughout South Carolina. Examples of instructional techniques and key relationship skill-building in and out of the classroom, are emphasized from the perspectives of teachers, community professionals, and students.
The documentary will be available via multi-format DVD kits that contain a full library of videos and teaching resources. More details to follow.