Event

GrowTeachKnox

Open to professional and informal educators alike, GrowTeachKnox is dedicated to engaging students with nature and the outdoors. Local environmental, gardening, and education professionals will provide hands-on learning for educators to better integrate lessons in the classroom with nature.

Educators will leave the day with the confidence to take their students outside, allowing students to more tangibly connect what they are learning to what they see in the wider world.

With principal approval, educators should be able to receive PD hours. Additional information or certificates available on request.

Breakfast and lunch are included with ticket price.
Please email beardsleyfarm@gmail.com with dietary restrictions.

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS: Sessions will cover sustaining school garden programs, outdoor learning for students with disabilities and behavioral disorders, incorporating technology into outdoor learning, and composting and waste reduction.

Schedule:
8:30: Registration & Breakfast

9:00-9:50: Welcome & Group Mindfulness Activity

10:00-10:50: Breakout Session 1
~Outdoor Education for ALL
~Composting 101

11:00-11:50: Breakout Session 2
~Incorporating Technology Into Outdoor Learning
~Creative Ways to Keep Your Garden Program Growing Year After
Year

11:50-12:40: Lunch/Networking

12:40-1:30: Breakout Session 3 - Repeats
~For the 3rd session, the two most popular sessions will be repeated, to provide opportunity for all who want to attend to do so.