Middle School

Stoklosa School Garden

The garden at the Stoklosa has truly become a living and thriving system. Placed behind the school, the garden has doubled in sized over the past year given the excitement from teachers and students. A handful of dedicated teachers have made the garden into a beautiful place where everyone likes to be. 

Bartlett Courtyard Garden

Built in the spring of 2015, this garden is literally in the center of the school in their courtyard. It is surrounded by all the classrooms and even the cafeteria so the students can always see it. It has become a big part of the culture in the school and on any given day you will see classrooms out there exploring. 

Robinson & McAuliffe School Garden

This garden is in the middle of a campus style school where it serves both elementary and middle school students. The garden has gained a lot of traction of the past year and it has become a huge resource for both schools. 

Medomak Middle School Garden

Medomak Middle School is currently building a small garden consisting of five raised beds.

Hellstern Middle School

FoodCorps service members help run Hellstern Middle School's community garden. The Hellstern garden provides opportunities for hands-on learning and skill building for the students as well as a living classroom for garden-based math and language arts classes. In addition, it provides fresh fruits and vegetables for the Hellstern cafeteria and a student-run farmers market. 

Growing STEAM Entrepreneurship in the Urban Community

The Partnership for Innovation in Education (www.piemedia.org) develops transformational, scalable, vertically integrated K-12 STEM Curriculum with community leaders, educators, business executives, university faculty, students, legislators and land, food, energy and technology entrepreneurs.  PIE Curriculum, first pioneered using the Socratic "case method" from Harvard University, features experiential "challenges" allowing students to devleop new career pathway opportunities and learning experiences offering real world learning.

Seed Life Skills

Seed Life Skills is a nonprofit dedicated to increasing food and financial awareness in youth through professional development and curriculum materials. 

We are working to incorporate lessons for DIY crafts & sewing, cooking & nutrition, financial & environmental stewardship, and so much more into our curriculum. We also hope to be multifaceted with our educational materials, and will incorporate applications of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into as many lessons as possible. 

Intergenerational Landed Learning Project

The Intergenerational Landed Learning Project unites the generations to cultivate habits of earth stewardship and healthy living.  Our programs:

•Promote environmental stewardship

•Celebrate healthy eating & lifestyles

•Facilitate intergenerational and cultural exchange

•Cultivate social development and lifelong learning

•Inspire experiential learning across disciplines

 

Our programs include:

Coretta Scott King Women's Leadership Academy

At Coretta Scott King Women's School, several classes rotate for bi-weekly gardening and nutrition lessons.

Our afterschool program tends to the garden and harvests and cooks with the vegetables weekly.

Crawford Long School Garden

The goals of the garden program are (1) encourage healthy eating among students, staff, and the community; (2) teach our stakeholders the practices of sustainability and self-sufficiency by teaching them how to grow their own food; (3) equip our students with life skills while introducing them to service-learning and the proper stewardship of our environment.

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