As Classrooms Heat Up, Llewellyn Elementary Explores Cooling Its Schoolyard
A new project looks to provide relief to an aging elementary school and the wildlife refuge it borders by tackling a lot of blacktop.
Zoey, a third grader at Llewellyn Elementary School in Southeast Portland, is all too aware when the weather’s warm. That’s because, like many aging Portland Public Schools buildings, her elementary school doesn’t have air conditioning.
“It doesn’t feel good,” Zoey says, on trying to learn in those conditions. “I noticed I was almost falling asleep in class when it was really hot because it was just the hotness that was making me tired.”
As it turns out, 8-year-old Zoey is not the only one feeling the heat at Llewellyn. The school is an urban heat island and the hottest point in the neighborhood in summer, says her mom, Kristin Pool Cohen, a horticulturalist who also teaches garden education at Llewellyn.
Author summary: Llewellyn Elementary explores cooling solutions.
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