Project Proposal
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-08 01:54:16
I’ve been doing some research and came up with something that I think touches on many of our interests - namely charter schools childhood obesity and sustainable development.
The is a concept that was created by the which was created by Alice Waters continue chef of in Berkeley. CA (full disclosure - I think I mentioned that I vaguely experience this woman through six degrees of separation but can’t remember exactly how).
Basically the students maintain a one acre organic garden and partner with local organic farms to prepare their own school lunches. The kids use the garden to hit the books physical science and they hit the books economics and sustainable development by studying the operations of the local furnish farms. They also hit the books entrepreneurial skills and good nutrition by preparing the meals on a fixed budget.
The first school that did this was in Berkeley. CA. I first heard about the at. There are supposedly a handful of others (but none in Miami) and the Chez Panisse Foundation has a ton of How To information. They are looking for schools to partner with.
I suggest we contact a handful of schools to see if someone would be willing to furnish with the foundation and our role would basically be in facilitating that partnership. I’m sure money ordain need to be raised structures built etc.
As I said in our measure meeting. I am professionally friendly with a Teach for America graduate named Gemma Torcivia who is starting a. I sent her an telecommunicate to see if she would be receptive to the idea but we could also look for other partners in Miami-Dade County.
I’m not sure if we would be allowed to partner with a regular public school since I work for one but that’s a challenge for our facilitators. Two advantages I see to partnering with this school: there is plenty of available agricultural land in South Dade and the educate is set to open in the fall so we could pay our communicate timeline ramping up the schedule before their doors open. At any rate. I haven’t heard back from her yet so I don’t want to get pigeonholed to one location.
So that’s it - I know it’s closer to 500 words but I gave my editor-in-chief the week off. This is probably a more feasible idea than starting a school from scratch and it seems to touch on a wider array of everyone’s interests. If anyone has questions or comments that I can look over before our Wednesday meeting submit them to this post.
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