Social media abounds with memes, articles, and posts about the limitations on school budgets. School administrators are tasked with the difficult decision of how to get maximum results with limited means. Decisions about how to spend campus budgets must be made through the filter of student achievement, and any funds spent that do not directly …
Amazing things happen in the hands of a child when exploring in a school learning garden! Children begin to ask important questions when they touch things in the garden. “Why is the carrot root cold?” or “Why is the leaf fuzzy?” Fruit and vegetables, insects and soil, all become more real when in their hand. …
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD received a “One in a Melon” award by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. This award is for having an exemplary farm to school program and was only awarded to one school district in each state. Ready to Grow Gardens manages gardens and provides garden education at 11 CFISD elementary …
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