$16.00 donated in past month
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay FeatureRelated Categories: Central Valley | Education & Student Activism
Taft Plants Learning Seed Montessor
$16.00 donated in past month
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay FeatureRelated Categories: Central Valley | Education & Student Activism
Taft Plants Learning Seed Montessori Way ~ "Get Growing Stockton"
Prior to Fall of 1996, Taft Botanical Gardens in Stockton, California was designed to help students learn how to learn by themselves through real-life experiences.. Everything is connected and interrelated in the world. Juneteenth at Taft Community Center sparked a new journey toward a renaissance of the Friends of Taft Botanical Gardens. Together, staff, community and regional agriculture industry leaders continue to join the effort. "Get Growing Stockton" is our campaign to educate our community in the heart of the "Greatest Garden in the World" the California Central Valley. Restoration of a viable Youth Employment Program in the 7th largest Agriculture economy in America may reduce crime and provide healthy solutions throughout our community.
Reprinted from Tamma Adamek
September 02, 1996
Even the dead begonias drooping flowerless in a bed outside Sylvia Ulmers office are a lesson in botany.
Well have the students pull out all the labels that came with them and figure out why they didn’t grow -- maybe they got too much sun, or maybe they just handled them too roughly, the Taft Elementary School Principal said.
Taft students will spend the first two months of the year planting flowers, Mexican sage bushes and palm trees in freshly built beds around their campus.
They’ll rescue earthworms from the path of shovels and spades, lay paving stones and learn how to sweep up after themselves.
More than an elaborate landscaping lesson, the new, student-built botanical garden at Taft is an integral part of the Montessori method teachers use to educate students on the Downing Street campus.
Designed to help students learn how to learn by themselves, the Montessori method relies heavily on real-life experiences for students.
Everything is connected and interrelated in this world. Through the curriculum, we teach children their place on Earth, said Susan Turof,
Montessori program specialist.
One place on Earth that Taft students do not belong is a long, nar