John A. Cunningham

John Cunningham, a science teacher at Foote School for over 25 years, has been a trailblazer while working with young children in horticulture and the environment. John initiated Foote School’s Environment Action Group (EAG) to provide a way for interested students in grades 6 thru 9 to pursue a broad range of activities related to conservation, horticulture and ecology. He has inspired many students during his long career to appreciate the “beauty and fragility of our planet.” With John’s influence, Ecology plays a part in the curriculum of each grade, from the tending of a garden to the more complex ideas about using alternative energy to offset the environmental costs of consumerism.
 

This award is in recognition of your work to inspire students to appreciate the fragility of our planet and its beauty. Through your efforts, your students are focused and energized about environmental science and conscious about what they can do as individuals to preserve our ecosystem.
 

Funded by the Long Island Tree Committee, Zone III