This quarter we are putting a spot light on Louise Levy (pictured above on the left). Louise has been in education for around 40 years, with 24 of those being in Massachusetts public schools. She has been collecting data in the Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming project for a full 15 years at Belchertown High School in Belchertown, Massachusetts primarily with 11th and 12th graders. She has also been participating in Our Changing Forests since 2015.
Louise values the Harvard Forest community of educators that she gets to meet and work with at our workshops. The community keeps fueling her passion for bringing her students outdoors and participating in our citizen science projects. Belchertown has a great site for forest studies with a large variety of trees within a short walking distance of the building, and Louise has done a lot over the years to increase the school communities comfort with getting outside for learning. Over the years, they’ve seen moose, bear, fox, star nosed moles, and salamanders galore. As Louise says, “the kids love getting outside. Oh, and the teacher does too!”
