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You’re here to meet me, and that’s just nice of you!
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” 1x, 10x’s, 100’s, How many times do I think this in a week alone? This saying sums up my mentality towards everything in life right now. For this blog, it applies to the sliver of my life I’m devoting to a handful of elementary students and my school garden. I’m here because I feel that through the different elementary schools I’ve been a part of, the gardens consistently go to the weeds, aaand maybe stay there for awhile (we won’t add up the time). Is this reasonably familiar? I’m here to blog my way through my experimental ideas and strategies to rehab my school’s garden using small…
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The Original Farm to Table Startup
….and the steps to make your own happen. I arrived on my campus in time for their first year of being a Leader in Me campus. It’s a program that takes Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and strives to instill this motivational mindset in kids. One of the big overarching themes of Leader in Me schools is that they turn over and create a lot of leadership roles for students. Teacher sponsored clubs, before or after school is one of the carriers to bring kids through the 7 principles. Now hold on, If you’re a teacher I know you caught the part where I said teacher sponsored clubs, before or after school. Before…