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Session 1: What is Your Why: School Gardens with Purpose

This webinar will provide tools and processes to think through what you want to achieve with your teaching garden, and how that can inform what your garden looks like. You will see examples from three school gardens: Turner Elementary School, DC Bilingual PCS, and KIPP PCS-Webb Campus. You will also learn about the research and evidence that grounds school gardens in best practices.

Resources for this webinar recording can be viewed by following the steps below:

  1. Create a free Schoology account;
  2. Add the course using the menu in the upper left-hand corner;
  3. Use the Access Code SC64-MJKW-9SFBC to add the Summer Institute Course;
  4. Click on the folder labeled Live Webinars and Recordings; and
  5. Select a webinar to watch.

Having issues accessing the Schoology website? Review this video that walks you through the process.

Outline with timestamps:

  1. Introduction 0:00
  2. Logic models overview 8:55
  3. School garden plan, Turner Elementary School 14:10
  4. School garden plan, DC Bilingual PCS 25:55
  5. School garden plan, KIPP PCS- Webb Campus 41:15
  6. Benefits of school gardens 1:05:00
  7. Q and A 1:16:15

Presenters:

  • Rhonda Ferguson, Turner Elementary;
  • Lola Bloom, DC Bilingual;
  • Allie Arnold, Washington Youth Garden;
  • Dwayne Thomas, KIPP Webb Campus; and
  • Sam Ullery, OSSE.

Related Content: Summer Institute for Garden Based Teaching