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What are ways to give students a voice in the expansion and integration of the school garden within the school?

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What are ways to give students a voice in the expansion and integration of the school garden within the school?

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Have you tried to recruit BIPOC staff from the schools you are working with?

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How did you go about establishing the program within the school district in your city?

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How do you talk with kids (4th grade-middle school- high school) about decolonizing and decolonization in the garden? Especially when in public schools...

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How does your extensive work at the leadership and staff level also engage students? Does your curriculum engage students in thinking about racial equity as part of their garden classes. If so, how?

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Do you ever feel torn between spending time and resources on team development/ decolonizing your organization and spending time and resources on programming/ helping more students? Seems like it’s always going to be a tough balance to strike and we’ll feel guilty no matter what!

Also, do you have good ideas for bday gifts for staff? Do you give the same gift to everyone, or personalize it?

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I am looking for partner collaborations for garden-based education. I developed the Youth Horticulture Education Program for the Univ. of Nevada, Reno. Participant ages 3 to 23.

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I am looking for partner collaborations for garden-based education. I developed the Youth Horticulture Education Program for the Univ. of Nevada, Reno. Participant ages 3 to 23.

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You mentioned, your school education program at Portland schools. Do you have any plans to expand operations to offering low-income/afforable housing education programs ?

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Is decolonization reflected in the leadership of the organization?

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The holidays! and having options on what holidays people celebrate. My family and I are trying to decolonize our holidays. coming from an indigenous person of the north american continent. thanks for bring light to this!

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Is practicing the *opposite* of white supremacy thinking (urgency, etc.) a way to start decolonizing education or is that too simplified?

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Is practicing the *opposite* of white supremacy thinking (urgency, etc.) a way to start decolonizing education or is that too simplified?

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Would you say white supremacist culture is 100% intertwined with capitalism? I'm curious about the similarities and differences between white supremacist culture and the go-go-go culture surrounding capitalism. How do you tell them apart or are they inherently tied together?

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how did you begin fostering partnerships with BIPOC farmers?

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how did you begin fostering partnerships with BIPOC farmers?

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(Many thanks) - curious about thoughts on programming in more affluent (suburban/semi-rural) communities. How to decenter the identities of students while centering students. Too much to ask?

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This is great, thanks! We are also an all-white organization trying to diversity staff which we have not been successful with yet. We do have a new partnership I can suggest which is with a member of the mashpee wompanoag nation and she’s written a new book about the indigenous perspective on the pilgrims settling in Massachusetts —it’s called Keepunumuk. There’s great curriculum on their website too that might help.

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Inspired by this work! As a white, privileged FoodCorps Service Member, I see how important this is working in a school. So thank you so much for this!

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I work with child care providers who are one of the lowest paid and undervalued work forces.  This information is so valuable to me in my continuous attempts not to be a white saviour! I am providing space for the teachers to come together and share their knowledge about gardening and the activities they are doing with the little ones, at the same time I am sharing my knowledge of gardening and the importance of bringing nature to children. we are creating a community of practice together around these topics.

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I work with child care providers who are one of the lowest paid and undervalued work forces.  This information is so valuable to me in my continuous attempts not to be a white saviour! I am providing space for the teachers to come together and share their knowledge about gardening and the activities they are doing with the little ones, at the same time I am sharing my knowledge of gardening and the importance of bringing nature to children. we are creating a community of practice together around these topics.

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I have developed curriculum for grades PreK-4th grade for garden education. We are in central Missouri and this is going to give us so many more ideas.

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Important valuable specifics re programming, salaries, and training!

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How do you show metrics and impact? Often I am pressured to create a big impact in a short time without focusing on lasting support and continued partnerships

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How do you show metrics and impact? Often I am pressured to create a big impact in a short time without focusing on lasting support and continued partnerships

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Social Emotional Learning incorporate that into curriculum if it is not already included

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Social Emotional Learning incorporate that into curriculum if it is not already included

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Thanks for sharing so much about White supremacy and the demands that capitalism. the structure of our "traditional" work hours are not giving us time to just be and rest.

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In your staff recruitment verbiage, do you actually state the goal of seeking BIPOC folks or is that only an internal spoken goal? 

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In your staff recruitment verbiage, do you actually state the goal of seeking BIPOC folks or is that only an internal spoken goal? 

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what are some ways to increase team bonding/bring the team members together as new hires join on the team

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what are some ways to increase team bonding/bring the team members together as new hires join on the team

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Do you ever get critique of these practices from people who say you're not doing enough? How to continue challenging employees while still creating this supportive environment?

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Do you ever get volunteers from the families of your students? I teach at a similar school and would love tips on how to encourage experts from our community!

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Do you ever get volunteers from the families of your students? I teach at a similar school and would love tips on how to encourage experts from our community!

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In NH we have incorporated diversity training into the Master Gardener classes - looking at work by BIPOC farmers & gardeners, how to reach underserved audiences, etc. There is much work to be done in this area but we are starting.

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can you talk more about your hiring practices as you seek to bring BIPOC staff into your team?

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can you talk more about your hiring practices as you seek to bring BIPOC staff into your team?

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Learn the native names of the plants - as it's the language that they know. It deepens our connection tot he plants and the land.

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Practicing (imperfectly) a shared leadership model within our organization among our staff of 9.

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Practicing (imperfectly) a shared leadership model within our organization among our staff of 9.

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Resources for decolonized conflict resolution practices for staff to use as a model?

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Resources for decolonized conflict resolution practices for staff to use as a model?

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Working with women of color who have been in corporate america and can help navigate out of corporate america.

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Working with women of color who have been in corporate america and can help navigate out of corporate america.

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students benefit from staff they may relate to...how can we increase diversity among staff

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students benefit from staff they may relate to...how can we increase diversity among staff

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Hello! I work for a large school district in the Bay Area in CA as a garden educator - just wondering what could be done from within (the bottom) the school system to work with administrators, bosses, supervisors. How to start bottom up, when we work in a large system!?

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Can you share more about the group agreements you create together?

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Thank you for sharing. I look forward to implementing the snack idea with the team I work with.

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How was the initial reaction from your leadership team in regards to implementing decolonization practices?

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What do you know about the history of school gardens in the US? As far as I know it was a practise spread from Europe in the colonized areas.

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What do you know about the history of school gardens in the US? As far as I know it was a practise spread from Europe in the colonized areas.

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Really great content, thank you so much!

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prioritize experience over formal education when hiring 

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prioritize experience over formal education when hiring 

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How do you do the podcasts or other discussions? Is it like a monthly/weekly meeting to discuss thoughts? Active email thread or chat group? How do you keep everyone engaged in the various PD?

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How are you addressing pay for your employees that do not come from generational wealth?

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How are you addressing pay for your employees that do not come from generational wealth?

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thank you for your wonderful thoughts and content on this important subject!

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thank you for your wonderful thoughts and content on this important subject!