Kitchen Classrooms

Scarsdale Middle School

Population of program: Scarsdale Middle School focuses on the developmental needs of early adolescents. We seek to foster a highly challenging intellectual environment that is also very nurturing and supportive. The population is made up of a diverse group of 1200 middle school students, from grades 6-8.  

Program Values: To provide hands-on learning and leadership opportunities in order to provide students opportunities to learn so they can make informed decisions about their well being, relationships, and resources to achieve optimal quality of life.

Santa Clara Unified School District - CTE GCC

The SCUSD CTE Garden Connections Teamis a part of a unified collaborative involving seven different SCUSD schools with varying demographics and backgrounds, as well as our child nutrition services department and the SCUSD Farm - to create a K-12 multi-disciplinary Garden Connections Collaborative (GCC). This GCC project includes school garden and culinary clubs, school site visits, mentorship exploration, field trips to our partnering sites as well as surrounding farm-to-fork educational facilities, and reality based education, career-connections opportunities for students.

Agua Caliente Elementary

Our program at Agua Caliente Elementary School (ACES) is brand new, as of 2017. Although the school has had a garden for nearly a decade, it has not been highly cultivated. Under a new wellness coordinator and thanks to several grants, ACES is determined to establish a central school garden. The school's mission is a primary focus on health and wellness, with the garden playing a central role in education, socialization and inspiration.

ACES serves elementary school students from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds in an all-inclusive hands-on education system. 

Una escuela de colores

Our mission is to seek that our communities have access to food education, so that this can provide a life filled with wellbeing and in turn permeate this culture in the immediate family.

Although we have had the opportunity to work for 5 years with public and private schools this time we will start working on a pilot program within a public school that is located in a marginalized area, this school has around 180 children from kindergarten to primary school

PACT Grow-to-Learn School Gardening Program

The PACT Grow-to-Learn Schoolyard Gardening Program teaches schools and communities about food and gardening. The program creates safe, experiential and positive learning environments in low-income neighbourhoods, as well as acts as a catalyst in raising awareness of important issues related to healthy eating/nutrition, food security, environmental sustainability and hunger in our schools and local communities.

PACT Grow-to-Learn School Gardening Program

The PACT Grow-to-Learn Schoolyard Gardening Program teaches schools and communities about food and gardening. The program creates safe, experiential and positive learning environments in low-income neighbourhoods, as well as acts as a catalyst in raising awareness of important issues related to healthy eating/nutrition, food security, environmental sustainability and hunger in our schools and local communities.

Montessori Children's House

Montessori Children’s House provides quality Montessori education that strives to be inclusive and supportive of all children and their families and creates a community in which children grow and reach their full potential.

MCH is a preschool for children ages 2½ to 6 years located in Northfield, Minnesota. Megan Ray Durkin, who holds American Montessori Society certification with thirty years experience, is the director of the school. 

Golestan Education

At Golestan, we value nature, kindness, creativity, diligence, curiosity, and responsibility.

With the encouragement of altruism and empathy, we strive to foster a community of confident, caring, and compassionate children that value Iranian culture while being responsible and inspiring citizens of our ever-changing, multi-cultural world.

Golestan applies a heuristic approach to teaching and a holistic approach to living.  From the rich lesson plans, to the wholesome foods the children eat, every detail has been thought out and is practiced with the utmost authenticity.

Bowie Culinary Career Program

New Culinary Arts Program creating new items using items from school garden

The Edible School Yard of Berat- The Castle Garden

Mission Statement : The Castle Garden will be a living interactive classroom where students from “22 Tetori” 9 Vejçare will learn all aspects of growing, harvesting and eating fresh produce to improve their health and increase their appreciation for the agricultural traditions of the Region and Municipality of Berat.

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