Carthay Environmental Studies Botanical School Gardens

04/29/2022

This FREE 4-part webinar series will offer clear and direct guidance for why and how your district can better invest in outdoor education using these resources.
In each session a panel of expert speakers and school, district, and state-level practitioners will present data and experiences to support you to take action now to build out the supports needed to get more students learning outside more of the time. Across all sessions information will be shared to center equity and support funding strategies as well as allow time for questions and discussion. Educational leaders at the state, district and school levels are encouraged to attend.
Series Schedule:
April 6, 2022: Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Outdoor Learning hosted by Big Green
April 27, 2022: Teaching and Learning Outside hosted by Out Teach
May 11, 2022: Creating Outdoor Spaces: The Infrastructure of Living Schoolyards hosted by Green Schoolyards America
May 25, 2022: Equity in Outdoor Education & Environmental Justice hosted by EcoRise.

11/04/2021

Parks provide so many benefits to communities, but not everyone has equal access to these spaces. In LA, transforming already existing Los Angeles Unified School District schoolyards into vibrant green spaces would bring over 1 million Angelenos to within a 10-min walk of a park.

To learn about how we are working with a coalition of partners in Los Angeles, download out special report “Greener Schoolyards for Los Angeles,” here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3mGXtwt

06/25/2020

Join Su Oh, Senior Vice President of Exhibition, Education and Community Engagement, and Molly Porter, Director of Education, as they explain how NHM's education team is helping local schools with distance learning by developing lesson plans, activities, and hosting student webinars and virtual educator workshops.

Join us for NHMLAC Happy Hour with Su Oh and Molly Porter! Join Su Oh, Senior Vice President of Exhibition, Education and Community Engagement, and Molly Porter, Director of Education, as they explain how NHM's education team is helping local schools with distance learning by developing lesson plans...

06/25/2020

https://edibleschoolyard.org/training

We train educators, gardeners, chefs, and advocates from all over the world to seed and grow edible education in their schools, cafeterias, and communities. Join us to learn and share core principles and practical tools for engaging students in academics, sensory learning, and culturally responsive....

09/07/2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/

With one dietary change, the U.S. could hypothetically get 74 percent of the way to meeting 2020 greenhouse-gas emission goals.

07/01/2019

https://ecologyforthemasses.com/2019/06/27/biodiverse-gardens-where-doing-less-is-more/

How do you make your garden more biodiversity-friendly? During my time at the Futurum exhibition at The Big Challenge Science Festival, I spent a lot of time talking to people who expressed a desi…

04/03/2019

Garden Team meeting on Thursday, April 4th at 3:30pm.

04/04/2016

http://www.larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-village-news/carthay-community-school-park-opened-friday/

03/30/2016

A fascinating program on nature and natural settings and how they support elementary education --
http://www.environment.ucla.edu/lakretz/events/482

Rethinking the Value of Nature from Education to Health, The UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability