The Whole Child Review Issue No. 1, October 2019

Blooming Gardens

Four years ago, the Common Ground Foundation, led by Academy Award winning artist, actor, and author, Common, partnered with the Gardeneers to bring a garden project to KIPP Bloom College Prep (KBCP). Since the founding of the gardens, the Gardeneers, a non-profit that cultivates customized school garden programs, has been visiting KBCP once a week to teach KIPPsters how to tend to the garden. They also lead demonstrations on healthy eating using vegetables from the garden.

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Other articles in this issue:

• Whole Child + Whole People
• Subtracting the anxiety and adding some joy to testing!
• Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Mindfulness, and Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
• Amplifying Inquiry and Evidence through Science
• Passion Projects
• Children’s Museum of Art and Social Justice
• Social Justice Fair
• 10 years of Arts Programming at KIPP Ascend Primary
• Featured in Chicago Magazine
• Harriett Ball Excellence in Teaching
• In Other Exciting News