Jungle Edge Respect Route Planner
by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

People will walk through it. Design where, so the damage is contained rather than spread.
The principle, that a single defined path does less harm than diffuse wandering, is counterintuitive to students who assume the greenest option is no path at all. The evidence says otherwise and the sheet includes it.
The page has the site analysis, route design criteria, a surfacing comparison and a monitoring plan. It also asks what would make people actually use the route, since a well designed path that nobody follows achieves nothing, and the answer is usually that it has to be the easiest option.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
LinkedInFor the full social and emotional learning programme, see the Empathy Curriculum at empathy.kids.





