TEECS school garden, named Green Pride, is maintained by the Green Teams with help from family volunteers over the summer months. Students and team leaders use material from TEECS’ compost to fertilize the soil and water from TEECS’ rain barrel to keep everything growing. In the...
Every year, during the month of October, TEECS holds a Halloween Costume Recycling program. This program encourages everyone to Go Green for Halloween by participating in a costume swap. We encourage families to donate their gently used Halloween costumes for other families to select. [button size=''...
TEECS continues to coordinate TREX recycling at our school. This program was devised by TREX to turn used plastic films into outdoor products. When you donate your unwanted plastic materials to Trex, not only are you helping to keep thousands of pounds of waste out...
TEECS continues to coordinate Crayola ColorCycle at our school. This program was devised by Crayola to turn used markers into energy! All around TEECS, students and teachers are collecting used markers that are ready to be discarded. The markers will be sent to a facility where...
In an effort to create a cleaner, greener environment for our staff and students, TEECS has adopted a more sustainable green cleaning policy. Each room in the school is now equipped with their own “green” cleaning products and cleaning checklist. We are encouraging staff and...
In an effort to better communicate with our families and as part of the Sustainable Jersey for Schools application, TEECS has added translation buttons to our website. Now you can translate our entire website into six different languages – Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and...
TEECS is committed to keeping our air clean. In conjunction with our Anti-Idling Policy, TEECS encourages carpooling. In 2019, we assigned one day as Carpool Day. In just one day, we noticed a reduction in cars at am drop-off from 148 vehicles to 121. We calculated...
As you may have seen around the parking lot, TEECS has installed anti-idling signs. TEECS has adopted a No Idling Policy to help keep our air a little cleaner and make TEECS an Idle-Free School. In April 2018, we performed idling observations over a four-day period....
Spotlight News 12 New Jersey : TEECS first virtual concert! On Facebook: Link [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/0QBuMJlyZf0']...
Students at Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School are making the most of their science classes while at home. Students in ninth grade Biology are performing a strawberry DNA extraction lab right from their own kitchens. Click here to read more: www.mycentraljersey.com To read the news as a pdf: Document11...