TLDR: Invite your seniors to a high school faculty meeting – maybe on Earth Day. Hold a fishbowl conversation, where you ask them about how your school has supported their growth as environmental leaders – and how you could do better. Then, work in teams of students and staff to fill big sheets of butcher paper, one for each grade – creating a map of the specific ways your school...
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Joel Tolman July 17, 2025
Wearing bright yellow safety vests, Aurelio, Claire, and Adriana lead their classmates across the narrow bridge that connects Common Ground High School's campus to the rest of the West Rock neighborhood. Hugging the guardrail, they are equipped with the tools they've assembled for the day's work: chalk, garbage pickers and bags, and homemade traffic signs sporting messages like "...
by Larry Dome, Evan Green, Shannon Raider Ginsberg, Sarah Tracy-Wanck, and Joel Tolman This blog post was originally written as part of a potential book project on urban farming and STEM learning, but never published. In 2024, it was brought back to life and published at teachcity.org with support from a USDA NIFA grant. Explore the full toolkit on urban farming and math learning here....