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GROWING TOGETHER
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TUESDAY, JULY 26 / 9AM-4PM
DAY 2: LYNNE CHERRY & JAN MCDONALD
Location: Clara Barton School Urban Farm, 190 Reynolds St., Rochester, NY 14608
$80 Adult; $60 Students, Seniors, and Rochester City School District Teachers
Fee covers both days and includes lunch catered by Savory Thyme featuring ingredients from the Clara Barton Urban Farm.
Professional development credit can be arranged through individual school districts.
Lynne Cherry
Engaging Students in Environmentally Related Projects
Lynne will lead a workshop for educators and anyone who would like to engage students in environmentally related projects. Through a train-the-trainer approach attendees will leave with skills to effectively empower youth with practical tools that connect them to the natural world and experiencing the impact that their lives can have on the rest of the ecosystem. Lynne will suggest ways that her books may be used to integrate math, science, and social studies into curricula through environmental themes. Her presentation gives the audience ideas about teaching and learning in exciting new ways, and leaves them empowered--with knowledge and inspiration for the future. http://www.lynnecherry.com/
Jan McDonald
Hands-On Agriculture-Based Learning
Jan will interweave and enrich Lynne�s presentation with hands-on garden-based activities that integrate the core subject areas of math, science, English language arts, social studies, and art. For example, she�ll use Lynne�s book How Groundhog�s Garden Grew to educate participants on the use of companion planting to attract beneficial insects while teaching math (garden layout and plant spacing, seed saving and exponential expansion), social studies (heirloom vegetables), science, art and ELA (composting, package design, story and procedural writing). Jan�s practical approach will leave you ready to design and build your own school, community, or family garden.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27 / 9AM-4PM
DAY 3: MARCIA EAMES-SHEAVLY & WALTER NELSON
Location: Clara Barton School Urban Farm, 190 Reynolds St., Rochester, NY 14608
Marcia Eames-Sheavly
Planning and Fundraising for a School Garden Project
Participants will review the benefits of garden-based learning, identify research that supports their work, create a program logic model and curriculum mapping template, develop a strategy for fundraising, and leave having created a program plan and ready to move forward. Marcia will provide you with the tools to maximize learning for students, to bring the curriculum to life. http://blogs.cornell.edu/garden/
Walter Nelson, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Horticulture Program Leader
Healthy Soil, Healthy Science, Healthy Students
Cornell Cooperative Extension staff will provide participants with a hands-on understanding of soil investigation with experiences in soil texture, soil pH, and permeability testing. You will see (and be able to replicate) the impact of soil texture on plant growth. Participants will learn fundamental interpretation of laboratory soil nutrient and possible soil contaminates test results. We will explore math calculation opportunities relating to use of healthy soil amendments. Attendees will see and use examples of �kitchen chemistry� and school laboratory materials, equipment and additional resources available to youthful soil scientists and their instructors.
Lynne Cherry
Lynne Cherry is an author, illustrator, filmmaker and environmental lecturer. She has written and/or illustrated over thirty award-winning books for children inspired by her own deep reverence for the natural world. Her best-selling books such as The Great Kapok Tree and A River Ran Wild teach children a respect for the earth, have sold over a million copies, and are translated into many languages.
Lynne is the producer and director of seven short movies Young Voices on Climate Change that tell the stories of young people who have reduced the carbon footprint of their homes, schools, communities, and states. The movies have been screened at museums and conferences including at The American Museum of Natural History during their climate exhibit, at the Environmental Conference of the American Bar Association, and at ASTC--The Association of Science and Technology Museums. The films are currently touring with Mountainfilm at Telluride's and Wild & Scenic's traveling film festivals. Lynne's movies can also be seen on the websites of many non-profits. See http://youngvoicesonclimatechange.com/
How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate, co-authored with photojournalist Gary Braasch, won the AAAS/Subaru Award. Lynne lectures widely�and passionately--about how children can make a difference. As 14-year-old Alec Loorz says in Lynne's movie Kids-vs-Global-Warming says, "Kids have power!" Lynne Cherry's books and films show kids can help create a better world.
Lynne earned an art degree at Tyler School of Art and an MS in History at Yale University. She has had artist-in-residencies at Princeton University, The Smithsonian Institution, and Cornell University. She was a recipient of the Metcalf Fellowship and has received science writing fellowships from the Marine Biological Lab and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her books have appeared many times on Reading Rainbow.
Lynne�s present work is trying to find several schools that can be held up as examples of prototype Green Schools willing to transform their schoolyard into nature centers which also provide a peaceful place to read a book and make connections to the other living things with whom we share our world. A prototype Green School would be A Microcosm of What We Want Our World to Become--a sustainable world where we use renewable resources, reduce pollution and toxics, eliminate the use of pesticides, reduce the use of resources, and recycle the resources we use. A Green School is a healthy school and will inspire other schools to work toward being better schools as well.
Within the next ten years, Lynne�s vision is that every school in this country will have a school garden and, instead of taking a field trip to a �nature center�, the �nature center� will be the school grounds. Instead of grass lawn with carcinogenic pesticide, she envisions habitat for birds, bees, butterflies and a delightful and healthy environment for children, too! And that outdoor area will be integrated into the science curriculum.
Lynne is currently Visiting Scholar at University of Colorado, Boulder at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR).
Marcia Eames-Sheavly
Marcia Eames-Sheavly provides statewide leadership and coordination of an interdepartmental and multidisciplinary garden-based learning extension program for children and youth educators. She also develops curriculum and educational resource materials, collaborates with other garden-based learning educators nation-wide, teaches the Art of Horticulture, and supervises independent study focusing on art and garden-based learning.
Her research focus is on collaboration between human development researchers and program evaluation specialists to examine youth and adult interactions in garden settings, community and youth development skills, and assets gained in garden-based learning, as well as to conduct evaluations of programming efforts.
Marcia teaches the Art of Horticulture, an elective course in the Department of Horticulture, and provides opportunities for undergraduates to experience independent study in the context of garden-based learning.
Jan McDonald
Jan McDonald has been the Director of Rochester Roots, Inc. since 2002. Inspired by experiential teaching and learning methods, Jan integrates her interests in social justice, sustainable agriculture, graphic design, fine art, healthy eating, and entrepreneurship into a project that grows youth, community and food. Jan is leading the way in developing the innovative Rochester Roots Urban Agriculture project which transforms vacant land at schools into productive organic teaching and enrichment gardens for youth, teachers, their families, and neighborhoods.
Since November 2009, Jan has fortified Rochester Roots through her participation in the City of Rochester Urban Agriculture and Community Garden Feasibility Study through researching soil and plant health and its relationship to nutrition and human health. Out of this collaborative experience she created a new Healthy Urban Food System Model, Phase 1 of which is being initiated this year; funded through the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
In 2011 Rochester Roots, the Rochester City School District Teaching and Learning Department, and Clara Barton School staff and students consulted with Sustainable Intelligence to research Phase 1 development of a Rochester Roots Learning Center and integrated agriculture-based curriculum that provides students and community members with a complete urban agriculture demonstration site and learning center. This will include a food system science and math lab that uses agriculture to enhance youth academics through experience in system analysis of life cycles, food chains, and nutrition relationships. This also includes a hands-on demonstration and teaching kitchen, entrepreneurship experience through product development and marketing, year round production greenhouse, and a one acre produce and fruit orchard farm.
In 2011 Rochester Roots will expand its programming to include a new farmer apprentice training program for young adults interested in organic farming as a career.
