Los Angeles County is home to 1.3 million students, attending 1,914 schools across 80 school districts. Collectively, school districts represent one of the largest landowners in LA County and offer minimal green space or shade canopy. These asphalt-covered schoolyards pose extreme health risks that exacerbate climate and environmental justice inequities in LA’s most vulnerable climate communities. With school-aged children being some of the most negatively affected by extreme heat events and existing environmental burdens, school greening represents a critical solution to redesign our school communities to help alleviate these environmental and public health impacts. 

School greening projects require specific engagement approaches to ensure teachers, students, parents, and staff are engaged in a project's development. This page is a compilation of school greening education, engagement, and design resources.