Johnson Elementary School is a part of the Charlottesville School District. City Schoolyard Garden, a non-profit organization. serves as an umbrella organization to create and manage edible schoolyards at all of the city's schools.
We have a school garden with a greenhouse and several raised beds for growing produce. Our produce is used to supplement our cafeteria salad bar. We also have two chickens Sunshine and Comet who eat some of our lunch scraps and help us put eggs on our salad bar.
At Chad Varah Primary School all our teaching and learning is project-based and from February to June 2013 the topic in our Year 6 class is based on growing your own produce. Everything we are learning about is focused around this topic whether it has a maths focus to an art focus.
Good Food for Oxford Schools (GFOS) is an initiative of the Oxford School District in Oxford, Mississippi to improve cafeteria menus and simultaneously educate students and their families.
All of the youth Hale Kipa serves have suffered trauma in one form or another, mostly through abuse, neglect or both. These traumatized youth suffer in school, in social circles and have been involved in the juvenile justice system.