Science Teacher Mary Beth Cochran is the head of The John Carroll School’s Green Team. She has worked very hard with other faculty members who are also a part of the Green Team to keep the school a healthy green school.

A Green School is a learning institution that focuses on the environment through its teachings, operations, school governance, and community.

There are two separate clubs who work towards the Green School. There is the Green Team, which contains faculty members, and then there are the Green Ambassadors which includes members of the student body.

Ms. Cochran said, “The Green Team is a group of faculty members who are invested in John Carroll becoming a Green School, but the Green Ambassadors are led by a group of students who have the same goals.”

Ms. Cochran believes that becoming a Green School was a very important step for JC. She said that it opens a lot of doors for students to enhance their interests, and it creates a statement for the public to show the school’s commitment to the natural world.

She added that investing in the pond last year was a key event that added to the Green School.

Ms. Cochran refuses to take credit for the Green Team and its accomplishments although she is the head of the club because she believes how far the school has come would not have been possible without the help of the administration.

She shared future projects coming up, including a perching post and St. Margaret School students coming to JC to get exposed to the natural world.

Ms. Cochran shared some of her goals for the future with the club. Goals include “adding raised beds to the campus, continue to span student interest in the environment, allow more student ideas to champion, and continue our recycling goals.”

Ms. Cochran not only cares about the Green Team and JC but also genuinely cares about the world and community around the school.