Seed Sleuths/Sabueso de Semillas

Seed Sleuths/Sabueso de Semillas

Early Childhood Program Manager Adriana Bikouvaris and Lead STEM Educator Maxwell Watson traveled to Santa Clara for the California Association for the Education of Young Children conference on April 21-22. Their presentation, “Learn with me/Aprende conmigo”, featured our popular...

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Garden Activities Improve Children’s Health

Garden Activities Improve Children’s Health

“Does a school-based gardening, nutrition, and cooking intervention affect changes in metabolic outcomes in elementary schoolchildren?” YES!, concluded a 3-year study in Austin, TX, published in Jan 2023 in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.” Children who participated in the...

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Planting Seeds for Tomorrow’s Leaders

Planting Seeds for Tomorrow’s Leaders

Happy New Year from Environmental Charter Middle School where STEM Program Director Meghan Nealon is empowering middle school students through project-based learning in the garden, and providing PreK-2 students with bilingual STEAM, nutrition and garden curricula created by the teens. But you...

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Back-to-School at LAUSD Early Education Centers

Back-to-School at LAUSD Early Education Centers

Adriana Bikouvaris, GrowingGreat’s Early Childhood Program Manager, was excited to make one of her first visits to meet the children at Roberti Early Education Center (EEC). The preschoolers had a great time studying different kinds of seeds together and will be planting soon! Roberti is...

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Summer Fun for LAUSD Principals

Summer Fun for LAUSD Principals

It was a beautiful morning at Glenfeliz Early Education Center when Jennifer, Adriana and Max came by for a special occasion. Just as we were on the cusp of Summer, our great friend Cyrene St. Amant had done GrowingGreat a tremendous favor by orchestrating a demonstration for 17 LAUSD early...

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Inchy the Caterpillar

Inchy the Caterpillar

Mr. Max and his friends at Maple Primary Center had a special surprise visit from their very own caterpillar. It was super fun for all the kids to see and touch. “Inchy” had plenty of love from all. The students knew the life cycle of butterflies and did some absolutely gorgeous...

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