Re: Update on the Merritt Lectures

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Hi Wendy,

 

I can take that spot instead of the 30th. I can try to have over head projector images, but power point is beyond me. I'll work on the other information you need asap.

 

Cassie

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Observations on an Evolving School Garden.

 

 

 

Concrete ideas and empowerment in creating a School Garden.

 

Benefits of School Garden on Education, Healthy Community and Environment.

 

 

 

Speaker:

 

Cassie Barr MS Education, with Environmental Education focus.

Substitute Child Development Teacher for Oakland Unified School District.

Garden Facilitator/Volunteer at Oakland Unified School District Elementary School.

Chair Wilderness Sub-Committee, Sierra Club.

 

 

     I grew up loving our family vegetable garden and family camping trips. My parents joined the Sierra Club when I was seven. These childhood experiences helped me to feel I was part of nature, and happier being close to nature. I became a preschool teacher after graduating with a BA in Art from San Francisco State in 1990. I found nature and early childhood went well together. To complete my professional growth requirements, I got my Masters in Education with an Environmental Education focus. In that program I wrote and implemented a garden curriculum for 3 year olds in the class I was teaching. I completed the program just before my son was born. He now attends an OUSD Elementary School. The school had no vegetable garden and looked rather bleak. I joined the PTA one year before my son was to attend and started to work with others parents, staff, and community members on getting a garden for the school. The school now has a Butterfly Garden, a Native Plant Garden, Vegetable Boxes and Kindergarten Wine Barrel Gardens.

 

 

[Environmentw]

Thanks for the bio information. We are working on the advertising for the event now. Things are coming together nicely.

Thanks for your help with the lecture.