The Dallas Architecture Forum awarded Texas Trees Foundation's Cool Schools' Program a 2023 Design Recognition Award for its excellence in landscape, urban design, public space and master planning.
![Cool-Schools-1 Cool A Warming City](https://texastrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Cool-Schools-1.jpg)
Collaborators included Studio Outside and Dallas ISD
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Cool Schools connect students and teachers to nature by planting trees and creating fun and engaging outdoor experiential learning areas. These spaces cultivate children's knowledge and awareness of the natural environment.
![DAF1 Ellen Denk, Principal/Partner with Studio Outside, and Samantha Bradley, Cool Schools Program Director, accepted the award. It was wonderful evening celebrating some of the most innovative and inspiring built environment around Dallas.](https://texastrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DAF1.jpg)
![DAF1 Ellen Denk, Principal/Partner with Studio Outside, and Samantha Bradley, Cool Schools Program Director, accepted the award. It was wonderful evening celebrating some of the most innovative and inspiring built environment around Dallas.](https://texastrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DAF1.jpg)
Ellen Denk, Principal/Partner with Studio Outside, and Samantha Bradley, Cool Schools Program Director, accepted the award. It was wonderful evening celebrating some of the most innovative and inspiring built environment around Dallas.
![DAF5 Cool Schools Award](https://texastrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DAF5-scaled.jpg)
![DAF5 Cool Schools Award](https://texastrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DAF5-scaled.jpg)
Cool Schools Program Manager Lindsay Hoot and Cool Schools Director Samantha Bradley accept the Dallas Architecture Forum Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 held at the Meyerson Symphony Center.