edible classroom – learning how to teach with Catherine Cadden
9:00am 4:00pm Saturday, September 4, 2010
Tembaland East, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Registrants will receive detailed directions after signing up for the workshop.
Teachers and home schoolers – if you work with kids from ages four through fourteen, this workshop is for you!
Begin the day with tea and muffins at Catherine’s lovely home and garden, after which you will explore ways to enhance academic learning with real world activities. Add to your teaching tool kit and go home feeling nurtured and rejuvenated!
During the course of the day you will learn how to:
- Teach community values, interdependence, and sustainability with hands-on learning
- Integrate growing, cooking, and eating organic food into your curriculum
- Inspire a culture of peace with Food Choices
- Discover practical ways to engage learners while sharing the power of nature
- Have your students experience culture, history, language, ecology, science, and mathematics through the cultivation and preparation of food
Everything we do in this workshop can be implemented in the classroom. Edible Classrooms includes lunch, much of it from made from food grown on the premises. Registrants will be able to discuss implementation of their new skills in a thirty minute “How’s it going now?” follow-up phone session with Catherine.
Workshop is limited to 15 people
$85 Registration and Payment Before August 27
$108 Registration and Payment August 28 through September 3
CATHERINE CADDEN has been an educator since 1987. In 1997, she founded The TEMBA School, a visionary K – 8 academic program rooted in Nonviolent Philosophy, Nonviolent Communication, Sustainable Living, and Artistic Expression.
From containers in the classroom to a one-acre micro garden her students’ experiences included making salsa right in the garden with fresh ingredients, cooking Community Meals for up to 50 folks, selling their own grown Heirloom Tomatoes to fundraise for a class farm trip, meditating in a lavender labyrinth they made, and creating herbal remedies with the herbs they grew.
Her background includes living at Full Belly Farm, studying the art of Zen and Gardening with Wendy Johnson, offering Nonviolent Communication trainings internationally to people of all ages, co-founding Play in the Wild! Initiations into Nonviolence for Youth, and developing TEMBA Peace Players, a multi-age performance troupe.
Catherine’s book Peaceable Revolution Through Education has been out for less than a year and has sold over 500 copies on 5 continents and has already been requested to be translated into 5 different languages. You can find out more about her book by going to http://babatree.org
Understanding the interdependence we have with all life on our planet validates the learner’s belonging and contribution to life itself. -Catherine Cadden
