Kindergarten

McKinley Thatcher Elementary

Our garden will create meaningful relationships between students and food. It is.important for kids to know where their food comes from who grows it and how to.prepare it. Our garden will engaging students in local food production and economies provide a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from daily experiences develop greater community interaction and instill the joy of cooking and the pleasures of eating nutritious tasty food. 

Garden Leader: Taryn Kapronica – loveitmadly@gmail.com

Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy

Garden Leader: Molly O’Malley - molly_omalley@dpsk12.org

Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is only two years old (KCAA) and is already winning awards. The new DPS school opened last year as a K-8 public school that will become a K-12 school in the next few years. The school was awarded the top new Art School by the Art School Network. This exciting school has a rigorous academic curriculum that addresses the Colorado State Standards but also has as its mission the integration of the arts in all areas.

Jefferson County Open School

Our garden will create meaningful relationships between students and food. It is important for kids to know where their food comes from who grows it and how to prepare it. The Garden will emphasize hands on experiences by engaging students in local food production and economies provide a living laboratory where interdisciplinary lessons are drawn from real life experiences develop greater community interaction and instill the joy of cooking and the pleasures of eating nutritious tasty food.

High Point Academy

Garden Leader: Stacey May -- may.stacey@gmail.com

 

High Point Academy (previously The Academy at High Point) is a charter school in the Green Valley Ranch area of Aurora. We serve about 400 students in preschool through 8th grade. Our school has a wellness focus that includes weekly wellness class for all students, staff wellness initiatives, and healthy snack requirements, among other programs.

Greenspace with Grace

 The Orion School's Greenspace with Grace Program is an outdoor education effort to establish a completely sustainable, organic garden from which our students will learn the value of hard work, the benefits of healthy eating, and the importance of giving back to the community. The outdoor education curriculum includes learning about organic gardening, raising chickens, vermiposting (composting with worms) and environmental sustainability.

Powell GT Elementary Community Courtyard Gardens

The Powell GT Magnet gardens and outdoor classrooms are educational spaces and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education. We have partnered with Sixth Sun (www.sixthsun.co) and NCSU landscape design department to design and build gardens and outdoor classrooms at our elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Eventually our outdoor courtyard space will also have a rain garden, pollinator gardens and an outdoor stage for theatrical productions and concerts.

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