Water, Waste Material, and Energy as Key Dimensions of Sustainable Management of Early Childhood Eco-Schools: An Environmental Literacy Model Based on Teachers Action-Competencies (ELTAC)

The main argument defended in this article is that the involvement of teachers decision-making about environmental aspects related to management educational institutions constitutes a powerful tool for training, teacher professional development, and literacies. A group early childhood education across various work under collaborative action-research model an entire year focussed on following: (1) institution’s water, solid waste, energy management; (2) planning innovative activities energy, and; (3) participation transformative actions involve families impact their neighbourhoods. experience enables building theoretical training aimed at acquiring action skills from comprehensive perspective triple helix literacy (management, research/innovation, teaching) affects commitments resources, eco-auditing eco-school, curricular greening activities, renewal programs, implementation sustainability.