Academic Classrooms

Environmental Charter School

The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park creates standards-based educational experiences for students through the thematic lens of environmental content.

Mission

The mission of The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park is to educate each student to high academic learning standards using a themed curriculum that will foster knowledge, love of and respect for the environment and the will to preserve it for future generations.

Description

Dufrocq Elementary School/ Slow Food Baton Rouge

Greauxing Healthy Baton Rouge is Slow Food BR's farm-to-school program. It is a replication of the Sustainable Food Center's Sprouting Healthy Kids program in Austin, TX. In our first year, we are working with about 100 students and three teachers at Dufrocq Elementary. The students with whom we currently work form two in-school MicroSociety ventures and meet for 3 hours per week.

Cocopah Middle School

Our garden goal is to further students' independence and involvement in our school and community by allowing them to create tangible items that can be shared with others. Our ultimate goal would be to have typical peers working along side our students with disabilities to produce and maintain living things. With this grant, we will be able to impact our students' lives, not only to further our students' character but also to provide meaningful academic and social opportunities that will help them become contributors tat our school.

Little Rock Preparatory Academy

This grant will help us purchase the gardening tools and supplies necessary to harvest all organic crops. We are committed on growing organic food and introduce students to a variety of fresh grown vegetables and herbs.

Lambert Public School

The goal of our program is to seek student involvement while building toward a much larger goal being a student operated farm where not only produce but livestock would be raised. The immediate goal of this initial project is to use the context of a garden to instill a sense of ownership, responsibility, work ethic and community into all students involved. The planting and harvesting of crops and produce is an added benefit to this program.

Ray Bjork Learning Center

The Ray Bjork Learning Center has a very unique population that is comprised of Special Education Pqreschool, HeadStart, and Gifted and Talented students. With funding from this grant, students will be able to design and implement an outdoor learning garden that is accessible to all students. This is a way to bring these diverse populations together.

Horseshoe Trails Elementary

The goal for the Horseshoe Trails garden is for all students to have an opportunity to experience gardening. For many of our students, this will be their first gardening experience and we hope to ignite a passion for future gardeners. We'd also like to encourage teachers to utilize the garden as a tool for scientific and multi-disciplinary learning. John Muir said, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he find it attached to the rest of the world." We believe the garden can be used to teach virtually any subject in a hands-on, meaningful way.

Glenmoor Elementary School

Our garden's goal is to teach the children at Glenmoor Elementary to eat more fresh, whole foods through the school garden program. The grant will make it possible for the school to provide the resources and materials to get this program started and able to flourish. We are excited to have the opportunity to teach the children to grow their own foods and eventually taste the fruits of their labor in the school cafeteria salad bar.

Stetson School

We have established three primary goals: - Teach students about sustainable practices and the importance of sustainability and our food system. - Provide staff the opportunity to purchase fresh, organic produce, and to provide our cafeteria and classrooms with the same for free as supplies allow. - To show students that great things can be accomplished through hard work.

St. Peter's Child Care

St. Peter's Child Care Center was established in 1983 in response to the community's need for quality childcare in Lakewood, OH (Cleveland). 

Enrollment is open to all families regardless of race, religion, or ethnic origin.  No religious vewpoint is taught or promoted within the center.  St. Peter's Child Care is a non-profit program located in St. Peter's Episcopal Church.  

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