School Learning Garden Network
School Learning Garden Network (SLGN)
The School Learning Garden Network is a collaboration with Seattle Public Schools Volunteer Enhancement Projects, Tilth Alliance, IslandWood, and Nurturing Roots.
SLGN hosts quarterly events to engage with school garden coordinators, volunteers, and educators towards advancing outdoor greenspace opportunities for all students.
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Upcoming Events
Garden tours and networking this year!
October 22, 2026 4-7 p.m. at B.F. Day Elementary. RSVP here for Garden Tours until 10/21.
Feb 4, 2027 4-7 p.m. at MLK Jr. Elementary
May 13, 2027 Location still TBD
Our focus this year is on lesson building using seasonal activities and connecting it to a classroom lesson or unit.
Please join us for one or all meetings!
Presentation Archive
2022
- SLGN Spring 2023 Workshop Garden Educator Co-Designed Lessons- lesson templates are coming soon!
- View our first Virtual Garden Tour at Jane Addams Middle School on YouTube.
- View the recorded presentation from our Quarterly Meeting discussing Culturally Responsive- Sustaining Education. The link to the Jamboard and SGSO video we watched can be found in the video description.
2021
- “Life Lessons Through Plants: In Pursuit of a Career in Gardens” Riz Reyes, Founder and Director of RHR Horticulture
- Rain Wise Guided Site Survey at Emerson Elementary Sonja Sivesind, Erin Irby, Seattle Public Utilities/ Rain Wise
- Trees for Neighborhoods Guided Site Survey at Thurgood Marshall Elementary Lou Stubecki, Seattle Public Utilities/ Trees for Seattle Program Manager
2020
- Root Bound: Growing a Revolution, Nyema Clark, Founder and Director of Nurturing Roots
- Stories from the Garden, Nicole Parish, Foxberry Garden Educator, Patty Lavelle, Jane Addams Garden Educator
- Learning in Places, Following the Rhizome: Designing Equitable Models of Field-Based Science, Dr. Priya Pugh, UW Bothell, Jordan Sherry-Wagner M.Ed., UW Bothell
- Dr. Flowers; Or, How to Build Plant-Conscious Relations with Nat Mengist, M. Ed., UW Bothell
- Education & Leadership Panel Discussion: School Garden and Farm Education Resiliency in the face of COVID and Systemic Racism, Cary Peterson, Farm Manager, South Whidbey School Farms, Sharon Siehl Program Director, Tilth Alliance, Laura Plaut Executive Director, Common Threads Farm
- What is a Rain Garden, and is a Rain Garden or Cistern Feasible for my School Site? Bill Malatinsky, Seattle Public Utilities/ Rain Wise, Celina Steiger, IslandWood
- Protecting Our Salmon: Understanding Schoolyard Green Infrastructure Kas Kinkead, Osborn Consulting
- Creating a Pollinator Paradise Kimberly Leeper, Working with Nature