Growing with "Green City Teachers"

The Green City Teachers training program is designed to provide Philadelphia educators with the skills necessary to integrate horticultural and environmental education into curricula, after-school programs and service-learning projects, and to help students appreciate the role of nature in their lives.

Become a “Green” Teacher
Philadelphia educators are invited to:

• Integrate horticulture and environmental education into the classroom
• Join a network of teachers
• Participate in a forum for sharing ideas
• Act 48 credit is available

For more details about the Green City Teachers program, contact Sally McCabe at 215-988-8846 or by email. To find out how you can support Green City Teachers, please contact the PHS Development Office at 215-988-8762.

Green City Teachers gratefully acknowledges its funders: GlaxoSmithKline, The Hamilton Family Foundation, The William M. King Charitable Foundation, The Lincoln Financial Foundation, The Rosenlund Family Foundation, and The Sprague Foundation.

NEXT GREEN CITY TEACHERS WORKSHOP
Six more weeks of winter?? No matter what the groundhog predicts, you can always get the jump on spring in the garden with coldframes, hoops, and other season extenders. Join us for this and other workshops for children and adults at Tinicum Tim’s Groundhog Day Celebration at the John Heinz Nat’l Wildlife Refuge.

Saturday, January 28, 10:30-11:30 - FREE
RSVP to greencityteachers@pennhort.org
For directions, links, info, and a list of other activities that day: click here.

Registration for the early summer How to Build a School Garden training will open in April.

To discover the PHS Garden Tenders program, click here.