Equipping educators with the tools they need to support garden-based learning.
July 8-10, 2020
National Children and Youth Gardening Symposium
Santa Cruz. CA
Multiple Sessions
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Crowdfunding Successes (and Challenges)
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Return of the Dirt Girls
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Lessons from the Field: Pathways for Women in Horticulture
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Enhance STE(A)M Education
July 12, 2019
National Children and Youth Gardening Symposium
Madison, WI
Dirt Girls to the Rescue! Gender Equity and Empowerment
In this session, I will outline the conditions for establishing a culture of inclusion by comparing “typical” approaches in garden-based learning with an apprenticeship model.
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Read more about The Dirt Girls here.
Enhance STE(A)M Education
March 13, 2019
Common Core Cooking and Gardening for the Next Generation
In this presentation, I will demonstrate how cooking and gardening engage children in a purposeful activity that nurtures their bodies and expands their minds. Specifically, I will share best practices for developing standards-aligned lessons for eating as learning based on a multisensory, multimodal, and multicultural approach: Eat-Read-Talk-Write. This classroom-tested pedagogical cycle extends to the school garden with suggested planting, growing, and harvesting activities.
Nurture Wellness
February 5, 2020
Southwest Desert Almanac
Phoenix, AZ
Kinders can count...bees!
In this lesson, kindergarteners become “citizen scientists” by observing, counting, and recording bees in the school garden.
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Foster Environmental Literacy
April 24, 2019
Digging Into Soils
In this session, we will explore the nature of interdependence by considering how matter cycles and energy flows in a soil ecosystem to better understand the role of decomposition in a school garden compost pile.
See the full-day description or register here.
Enhance STE(A)M Education
April 11, 2018
School Garden Network of Sonoma County
Garden-Based Learning for Science and Literacy
In this full-day course, participants will examine their background knowledge of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA). Through guided interactive lessons, participants will learn how to meet the standards using the school garden or outdoor classroom. (CEUs available.)
Enhance STE(A)M Education
Nov. 2nd, 2019 and Jan. 18th, March 21st, and May 16th 2020
Sustaining School Gardens
In this four-session course, participants use a Professional Learning Community (PLC) model to collaborate to develop leadership capacity to sustain school gardens.
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Enhance STE(A)M Education
March 15th, 2019
Citizen Science as a Catalyst for Environmental Stewardship
The students at Pueblo Vista Environmental Science/Dual Immersion Magnet School have been studying human impact on pollinators, incorporating these citizen science projects as a catalyst for environmental stewardship. Using the school garden as an outdoor classroom, bilingual K-5 teachers and students investigate bees, butterflies, beetles, birds and bats within the context of NGSS aligned units of study taught in Spanish.
Foster Environmental Literacy
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