Moses Thompson & Carly Pierson: Rooted in Community – UA School Garden Workshop

10/04/2023 45 min
Moses Thompson & Carly Pierson: Rooted in Community – UA School Garden Workshop

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Episode Synopsis

The School Garden Workshop (SGW) is an immensely impactful program in the University of Arizona and Tucson Unified School District communities… as well as throughout the city of Tucson and greater southern Arizona region. School gardens can be powerful educational tools. SGW enables teachers to tap into their students’ energy and curiosity through integrating active, hands-on lessons in conventional academic subjects, like math, science, and language arts. Equally important as conventional and practice-based learning spaces, school gardens foster cooperation, autonomy, and social justice. In this conversation, we hear more from Moses and Carly about SGW and some of the myriad ways the gardens affect the next generation of learners.

Hosted by Taylor Miller; post-production and edition by Carlos Quintero

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