Design Resources

Explore green schoolyard design ideas that maximize community benefits

Green schoolyards can improve students’ health, well-being, and academic potential.

Green infrastructure designs can promote exercise and active living.

Green infrastructure designs can improve mental health and reduce stress and anxiety.

Creating more inviting outdoor spaces can increase socialization and community building.

Involving students in green infrastructure can inspire green career pathways.

Shade trees and vegetation can help keep students and faculty cooler in the summer, and warmer in the winter.

Green infrastructure along the right-of-way, driveways, and parking lots can help calm traffic for pedestrian safety.

Green infrastructure can help schools capture and reuse rainwater.