Germination
This is not the beginning. It is a beginning, but not the beginning.
I am readying myself to move the tender, dewey sprouts of an idea from their warm start tray to a greenhouse.
A new season of growth.
The journey that lies ahead of me is one of of learning and mistake-making and reflecting and challenging myself. And I want to bring you with me. Each of you, in whatever capacity you chose to come along. I’m hoping that this blog will be both a space for me to reflect, and a point at which we can connect.
In prose: I am going to do a Master’s of Education in Harvard’s Special Studies in Education Program. This Master’s degree is entirely student-directed, a program I design based upon a research question or project idea. Though I am honoured to be attending a school with such a strong reputation, it is truly the openness of the Special Studies program that compelled me to apply. Fertile soil in which to germinate these seeds.
Here’s what I want to do:
Ultimately, I want to design a school that is centered around growing food. I want to embed the curriculum in this context: teaching math through calculations of area and required water and selling prices of the farm’s produce and the kids’ value added products. Social studies through an in depth study of food justice and the history and politics of our food system. Science as it relates to agriculture.
I have elaborate dreams of morning meetings and project based learning; of students taking turns preparing meals for one another in an industrial kitchen; of youth watching the fruits of their labor grow from the soil, where once there was nothing.
Thanks for being part of the process. Welcome to the discussion.
