Eagle Rock Elementary

Grades 5 & 6 — Eagle Rock

At just over 3000 sq feet, the Eagle Rock Elementary garden was designed to allow significant foot traffic while still functioning as a robust habitat and living classroom. With the considerable help from our CCAC fellows, we have been able to draft and run 10 hours of our Whole Community Curriculum during school hours, as well as after-school clubs in art, garden design and kinder inspiration.

Our Whole Community Curriculum focuses, step by step, on redefining just what community means by exploring our cultural and natural history in ten clear, powerful lessons. Centering hyper-local ecotopes allows us to start at the beginning of the world we live in and work our way forward to life as we live and know it now. By placing this work in the garden, we also offer our kids heightened senses of agency, stewardship, and hands-on engagement with our dynamic world.

With this garden, the Wild Classroom Project is honing in on its goal of creating a scaleable, adaptable format of our Whole Community Curriculum, including Living Classroom design and site appointed Stewards, across the country.