Capital Region educators, education leaders and other interested community members: You are invited to the inaugural Teaching in the Garden Workshop at Siena University on Monday, Aug. 24!
Learn about nuts and bolts issues such as garden maintenance and community/family engagement, emerging trends like farm to table programming and pulling it all together with outdoor and place-based education curriculum.
Please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSdGDraTisVL5z…/viewform or drop email to jsuriano@siena.edu. And please do it soon, as space is limited for this first time around.
Whether you thinking about launching a garden program or furthering work you have already started, this workshop is for you! Come interested; come curious.
The workshop, a collaboration of Siena, the Schenectady City School District’s Farm to School Project and the Vegetable Project, will be on the Siena campus in Loudonville from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. with breakfast and lunch provided. Six continuing teaching and leadership education credits will be offered to interested attendees.
Tentative Agenda:
8:30 – Arrival and breakfast
9:00 – Guest Speaker
10:00 -12:15 – Model Lessons & Debrief/Planning
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch
1:30 -2:15 – Panel Presentation
2:30-3:00 – Roundtable Discussions
3:00-3:30 – Wrap Up
We hope to see you there! Jenni Suriano, Siena University; Rebekka Henriksen, Farm to School; Schenectady CSD; Bill Stoneman, Vegetable Project
And if you are unable to attend this year’s event, but are interested in a similar one in the future, please complete the Google Form. This workshop is a pilot step toward a larger conference that we hope to host in the very near future.
