Our Program
Looking to start or enhance an educational garden program, or elevate an existing one? Powered by Sprouts Healthy Community Foundation, our 8-week virtual course will guide and support educators in becoming Life Lab-Certified School Garden Educators! This series is open to all who want to earn this certification—no experience or degree required to join!
Next Cohort: 2/3/25 - 3/26/25
Program Overview
The Life Lab-Certified School Garden Educators Course will provide educators with tools and techniques to create inclusive and engaging school garden classrooms, integrating environmental stewardship, science-based learning, nutrition education, and community building to foster children’s social, emotional, and academic growth.
What you’ll earn:
Insights and inspiration from Life Lab’s 40+ years of experience in the school garden movement, a trusted leader in garden-based learning.
A supportive community of like-minded educators, sharing ideas, successes, and challenges.
A Recognized Certification as a Life Lab School Garden Educator, demonstrating your commitment to innovative, experiential learning.
What you’ll learn:
Enhance Social-Emotional Learning: Discover methods to create an inclusive garden classroom that supports students' social and emotional well-being by integrating mindfulness, respect, and equity.
Teaching skills: Practical, engaging activities and strategies to connect students with nature, fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and environmental stewardship.
Nutrition and Healthy Eating Habits: Explore ways to teach nutrition through hands-on, garden-based activities, encouraging students to eat fruits and vegetables and understand food origins.
Become a Life Lab-Certified School Garden Educator!
Next Cohort:
February 3, 2025 - March 26, 2025
$1,400 for the course, materials, and the certification.
This course includes:
• Weekly synchronous virtual sessions (these sessions will meet over Zoom, on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:30 PM - 5 PM PT) that include discussions, sharing of resources, hands-on demonstration lessons, and community building. Participants should expect to actively participate in discussion groups and demonstration lessons.
• Two 1-on-1 coaching sessions that include specific feedback and reflection questions to support your teaching practice.
• Asynchronous content that can be completed on your own time
• Access to high-quality Life Lab vetted materials
• 1 copy of The Growing Classroom garden activity guide
• Digital copies of Life Lab’s Next Generation in the Garden lessons for K-2.
•Free Seeds!
Additional Information
100% of program graduates noticed a marked significant improvement in their confidence and motivation to inspire a love of nature, healthy eating, and learning through garden-based education!
“This is the most beneficial class I've ever taken. My confidence and knowledge in the realm of garden based education has vastly increased! I'm so excited to be a Life Lab Certified Educator.”
-Certification Course Graduate
“This is the first virtual course I've had with coaching sessions, and it made a huge difference in how much I was able to get out of the course.”
-Certification Course Graduate
Life Lab has certified 170 Garden Educators to date!
Join us and bring learning
to life in the garden!
Meet Our Life Lab Course Facilitator and Guest Educators
Regi
Jones
Lead Facilitator
Jenna Mobley
Guest Educator & Coach
Kelsey Cerdas
Coordinator
