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GLOBAL SOURCE EDUCATION
Enriching K-12 Education for the 21st Century
Food, Farming, Culture & Education |
To change ideas about what land is for
is to change ideas about what anything is for.
—Aldo Leopold
To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Food, Farming, Culture & Education
Second Annual Summer Institute for
K-12 and Community-Based Educators
July 28-31,2008
9:30am-4:30pm
Hosted at Day Road Farms
8989 Day Road East, Bainbridge Island, WA
Tradition bearer Dave Ullin demonstrates woodworking skills.
What are the possibilities for teaching and learning about food and farming
in elementary and secondary education?
Join educators, farmers and other practitioners this summer for an experience of scholarship, stewardship and citizenship.
- Explore authentic, meaningful and comprehensive ways to bridge classroom and communities with your teaching and learning.
- Discover how a lived experience can inform and cultivate a more lived curriculum.
- Deepen your professional repertoire and connecting you to people, places, projects and possibilities to enrich and enliven your teaching about
issues we, as educators, already feel responsible for in our curriculum.
This is a great opportunity to be professionally fed and feed others!
Presented by Global Source Education, in collaboration with Bainbridge Island Vineyards,
Laughing Crow Farm, local community organizations, businesses,
and schools,
with generous support from the Clovis Foundation,
Leiter Family Foundation, and others.
Sessions and Activities will include:
- You will learn about the practice of sustainable farming and agrarian ideals at Day Road Farms. We will get our hands and feet in the soil with farm work,
led by Gerard Bentryn, of Bainbridge Island Vineyards, and Betsey Wittick, of Laughing Crow Farm, and explore the possibilities of developing your own farming project
with Day Road farms and/or gardening projects at your school.
- Local educators will share the curricular projects they have developed with Day Road Farms.
- Dave Ullin, woodworker and tradition bearer, will talk with us about purposeful work, experiential education, and forest to classroom projects. He will lead us
through hands-on traditional woodworking projects you can organize for your students on Day Road Farms and at your school.
- Ed Mikel and Jonathan Scherch, from Antioch University Seattle, will discuss ways to build sustainable schools and communities and democratic ideas about
reclaiming the commons.
- Local physicians and nutritionists will talk with us about issues of food, health, and nutrition, and the possibilities for rethinking school lunch.
- Local chefs will prepare lunches of locally grown food and share her ideas for integrating culinary arts in the curriculum.
- We are working on a tour, lunch, and food talk at Town and Country Market, celebrating 50 years serving Bainbridge Island, to learn about the grocery side of food,
farming and sustainability.
- Through readings, documentaries, and living resources, we will explore history, heritage, and cultural diversity of farming on Bainbridge Island.
- With the experience that our participating K-12 and community-based educators bring to this program, there will be no shortage of pedagogical and curricular ideas t
o be exchanged and created during our time together.
- Participants will receive a comprehensive resource handbook to complement these sessions and the larger themes of the institute.
Suggested Resources
Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12
General
Tuition: $245 for Global Source Members, $265 for Non-members
Clock Hours Available
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Global Source Education is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
serving elementary and secondary education in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
info@GlobalSourceNetwork.org • (206) 780-5797
PO Box 11316, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
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