Kindergarten

 Greater Brunswick Charter School is a free, independent public school founded by area parents and educators in 1998. Located in a newly renovated building in New Brunswick, NJ, our school welcomes a diverse population from New Brunswick, Highland Park, and Edison, as well as other districts around the state.

The Ben W. Murch Elementary School is a DC public school serving 630 students from Pre-K through 5th grade. Murch, its Home and School Association, and community partners, have supported a school garden program, the Murch GreenScene, since 2009. Each year every student at Murch has between one and three lessons in the gardens, sometimes more, plus one nutrition-based lesson with a local chef. The GreenScene program supports six outdoor garden learning centers: 1 - a 15-tree fruit orchard and diverse tree canopy, supported in partnership with Casey Trees; 2 - a 190 sq. ft.

Tierra Pacifica Charter School, formed in 1998, is a collaborative effort among parents, teachers and community members committed to the development of the whole child. Through the establishment of a charter school, we believe we can work within the school system to create an innovative alternative model to traditional public elementary schools.

Tierra Pacifica educates children from Kindergarten through 8th grade. The school is designed for families who want to take an active role in the education of their children, both in and out of the classroom.

The Kohala Center is an independent, not-for-profit, community-based center for research, conservation, and education. By focusing on the needs of island residents and the research interests of our university and agency partners, three core areas of work have emerged: energy self-reliance, food self-reliance, and ecosystem health. Through these partnerships and by recognizing that we work in a model environment, we help communities on the island, in the Pacific, and around the world thrive—ecologically, economically, culturally, and socially.