Dear All, There are a number of people in the USA and India who want to accelerate our student's realization of a more planetary perspective on things, both to inspire greater love and respect for the earth and God's children's outside national borders, but also to prepare the way for our youth to becoming sufficiently prepared to take on work roles in countries and cultures beyond there own.
With the miracle of the internet we can now provide our youth with occasions to communicate with one another around hands on learning experience in edible playgrounds, community and family gardens, aquaponic experiments, and so forth. Here is a letter from a MIlwaukee School Principal that captures the spirit of this vision: I am with a Milwaukee Partnership School that is currently in the infancy stages of a partnership with Sweet Water. I am still waiting to hear if we will receive funding to support our first year in partnership. I am very interested in a pen pal opportunity as we are trying to connect our students locally and globally to better understand their roles and responsibilities as agents of change in the world around them. We are looking for opportunities and resources to make what our students are learning in the classroom relevant to community and world and this may be one piece we could tie in to both English and Social Studies curriculum with the potential to skype evenJ . Let me know if you would be interested in having further conversations. I look forward to hearing from you! Debi Harry-Principal Grandview High School Milwaukee, Wi. * Let us know if you'd like to brainsntorm this! * Godsil -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110811/8f0fa593/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
