Garden Classrooms

Opened on Maryville's Des Plaines, IL campus in August 2007, the Jen School is a special education day school for male students, grades 7-12, with intellectual, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Jen School serves students from Maryville's residential programs and day students from local communities.

 Atlanta International School's popular Language Camps in French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, and ESL help campers develop their second language skills at all skill levels. Campers participate in immersion classes and activities such as theater and music delivered in their language of choice. Additionally sports, technology, and yoga activities are offered every week for a well-rounded camp experience.

Our three-week curriculum addresses all aspects of language: listening, speaking, writing, vocabulary, and most importantly, a lifelong interest in other cultures.

The Liberty School Garden is a growing garden classroom program established in 2012 by the Liberty PTA. We are starting small but have big goals! In the Spring, the 5th grade plants "Seed-to-Salad" and the Kindergarteners plant pole bean and snap pea teepees. After the Spring harvest, we get the remaining grades involved by planting the "Three Sisters" and other Fall veggies such as a pumpkin patch. Our program at the moment is small but we hope that with fundraising and more volunteers, with each school year our edible schoolyard will grow and grow!

Paramount School of Excellence incorporates its edible schoolyard into the K-8 curriculum. Every class has a garden plot to maintain. As a school, this process helps children discovery a vast array of curricular connections through gardening.