Our mission at Growing Leaders is to develop college and career readiness and job development for young people. We do this through our garden and cooking programs which include our 6th grade gardening and cooking classes, our 7th and 8th grade business elective, our high school internship program, afterschool class, and teen summer employment program.
With our Growing Leaders 7th/8th grade business elective we are growing and producing meals to sell monthly. Interested? Click here to find out more!
With our Growing Leaders 7th/8th grade business elective we are growing and producing meals to sell monthly. Interested? Click here to find out more!
If you are in interested in making a donation to our program, click below!
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Watch our new video to find out more about Growing Leaders!
For more information, contact us at growingleadersbayarea@gmail.com
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It’s not unusual for school programs to be cut — even successful and popular ones. Often the program disappears into memory. But sometimes school supporters can rally to keep it going. At Willard Middle School in Berkeley, California, parents and the community mobilized to raise money to keep alive a cooking and gardening program at the school after its budget was cut. But the school didn’t stop there — its teachers have tasked students with turning the program into a successful small business, generating revenues to support the program. Students are learning by doing, even when that means making mistakes that cost the program money, all for the purposes of learning. (READ THE REST HERE!)
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