Green School Practices in Quezon Province: Groundwork for a Sustainable Development Program

Abstract

This research explored the green school practices and go green programs in Quezon Province with an end view of developing a sustainable green school development program. A quantitative research using the descriptive-comparative design, this study included 16 secondary schools, where 112 teacher-coordinators and school head participants purposively accomplished a survey-questionnaire. Weighted mean and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data. Results show that the most common green school practices is Green Healthy Space (gardening) while the least is Resources Sustainability (waste management). A sustainable development pro- gram was proposed to address the reported lack of sustainability of green school programs in the province. The findings of the study can serve as a good basis for DepEd top management for a more localized implementation towards the goal of effecting behavioral change on environment-related matters (increasing recycling, care of neglected areas, promoting green healthy spaces, etc.) within the locality where the schools belong.