Next Generation of School Gardening J une 2 8 , 2 0 1 4 S c h o o l G a r de n i n g C o nfe r e n c e
Quick Reference Session Guide
8 – 8:30 a.m.
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Registration, Check-in, Networking, Coffee, and Rolls Nichols Hall Welcome and Introductions
Katherine Johnson, Chicago Botanic Garden Nichols Hall
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker William Sullivan, Professor of Landscape Architecture,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nichols Hall
Break
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Breakout Sessions
9:45 – 11 a.m.
Nichols Hall
Pullman Room
Growing a Healthy and Inclusive Garden
Save our Native Pollinators!
Zak Goad and Susan Lichner, Maryville Jen School
Jim Doyiakos Amundsen High School
Healthy Role Models— a School Garden in Your Lunchbox?
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Cheri Endler and
Andy Moss, Whole Foods Market
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
3:30 – 4 p.m.
Becky Ammann, Chicago Botanic Garden
Ask a Horticulturist
Moshe Pinargote, Chicago Botanic Garden Meet by the west portico for trolley ride to the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden.
Using the School Garden As an Extension of the Classroom
John Cawood Openlands
I Spy: Using Observation Skills in the Garden
Becky Ammann and Katherine Johnson, Chicago Botanic Garden
Ask a Horticulturist
Moshe Pinargote, Chicago Botanic Garden Meet by the west portico for trolley ride to the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden.
Lunch in Nichols Hall; Windy City Harvest Youth Farm market in Krehbiel Gallery. Visit the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Greenhouses and grounds. Tour Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden with horticulturist Lisa Hilgenberg, Chicago Botanic Garden. Gardening for All
2 – 3:15 p.m.
Classroom Gardening: Tips, Techniques, and Connecting Standards
Alternative Location
Break and Resource Tables in Nichols Hall
11 – 11:15 a.m.
12:30 – 2 p.m.
Linnaeus Room
Alicia Green, Chicago Botanic Garden Note location: Buehler Enabling Garden
Salad Science: Exploring the Triple Bottom Line
Eliza Fournier, Chicago Botanic Garden
STEM Projects
Allison Jackson, Lane Tech College Prep, and Todd Katz, Whitney M. Young Magnet High School
Break
Raffle, Evaluations, and CPDUs in Alsdorf Auditorium
Easy Inquiry in the Garden
Katherine Johnson, Chicago Botanic Garden Native Plant Garden