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Programs for Formal & Informal Educators
Wednesday, July 23, 10a-3p
Eating What We Most Need to Learn: An Orientation to Your Food Community
Various Sites on Bainbridge Island
Class Size: 6-12, Tuition: $65, includes lunch
Learn about community food systems and experience the ingredients that make for a healthy food community. Participants will follow, examine, and taste their way through a locally grown food chain from production on a working farm to distribution through a grocery store to consumption at a restaurant. Snacks and Lunch included.
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Tuesday, July 29, 10a-2p
Approaching Edible Education I: Why are we doing this anyway? Grounding a Rationale for Edible Education in PreK-12 Schools *
EduCulture and Partner Sites, Bainbridge Island
Open to Formal & Informal Educators. Class Size: 8-16
Tuition: $55, includes lunch. Clock hours available by request.
What are major considerations informing edible education in K-12 schooling? We will explore the major “Why’s” that help us, as educators, ground a solid, vibrant rationale for the many ways in which food plays a role in our schools: from the classroom, to the curriculum, to the lunch room.
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Thursday, July 31, 10a-2p
Approaching Edible Education II: What Does Edible Education Look Like? Curricular Considerations and Pathways for PreK-12 Schools *
EduCulture and Partner Sites, Bainbridge Island
Open to Formal & Informal Educators. Class Size: 8-16
Tuition: $55, includes lunch. Clock hours available by request.
What are major curricular considerations informing edible education in K-12 schooling? We will explore the major pathways for integrating edible education into the core curriculum (math, science, social studies…), as well as other curricular opportunities to address the study of food in our schools: from the classroom, to the garden or farm, to the lunch room.
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Saturday, August 2, 5:30-8:30p
Foodshed to Table Summer Convivium & Dinner
Laughing Crow Farm & Bainbridge Vineyards, Bainbridge Island
Join EduCulture for a special outdoor foodshed to table dinner this summer. Enjoy a locally grown, farm-style meal and support locally grown edible education in the process. This foodshed to fork dinner is part of a series seasonal dinners EduCulture is developing to bring people together around the wild and cultivated food traditions of our Pacific Northwest bioregion, some call Salmon Nation, including from our partner farms. EduCulture is partnering with The Food Shed to help shape and deliver a menu built on what is seasonal and regional, all sourced locally, fairly and sustainably.
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Tuesday, August 5, 1-4p
Approaching Edible Education III: How Do I Develop an Edible Education Program for My School, Garden, Farm or Kitchen? Addressing Planning Considerations, Opportunities and Challenges *
EduCulture and Partner Sites, Bainbridge Island
Open to Formal & Informal Educators. Class Size: 6-12
Tuition: $35. Clock hours available by request. Permission of the Instructor required.
What are major programmatic considerations informing edible education in K-12 schooling? How do we design edible education programs at the curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular levels for the classroom, school garden, neighboring farm, school lunch, and other school and food community assets? This seminar is designed for those developing an edible education program to have a professional learning environment in which to more fully examine and enrich their program design, planning, and outcomes.
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* Approaching Edible Education I, II & III were designed to be taken as a series, but may be taken as independent classes.
* All Edible Education Classes will close with a wine tasting from Bainbridge Vineyards!
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Thursday, August 7, 10a-4p
Approaching the Study of Japanese American Exclusion in Elementary & Secondary Education
Various Sites on Bainbridge Island
Open to Formal & Informal Educators. Class Size: 8-16
Tuition: $65, includes lunch. Clock hours available by request.
Through our Only What We Can Carry Project, you will visit key heritage sites and follow the lives of Bainbridge Island Japanese American Families who immigrated from Japan, established livelihoods, became citizens, then were forced into concentration camps during WWII. Spend the day exploring historic Suyematsu Farm, Bainbridge Gardens, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. You will dialogue with original Bainbridge Islanders whose families lived through WWII and the Exclusion. The aim of this workshop is to help you as an educator to bear witness and bring this period of history alive for your students, while modeling field classes and learning experiences you can facilitate for students.
*please note: programs subject to change