How I got to go to Japan

If you want to learn more about the Japan-US teacher exchange program for ESD and how you can apply, here is the place to start; http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/ESD . You will need to come up with a proposal of how you will integrate both ESD and what you might learn from the Japanese experience into your curriculum. My idea was to learn how Japanese schools grow and prepare their own food. I decided to set up a cellugro garden with my students, http://www.cellugro.com/, planting vegetables traditionally grown in Japan. We would harvest the garden and prepare a Japanese feast. Just before the school year ended, I purchased the cellugro garden system with my BP grant money and my 8th grade students and I began our project. See this link for more photos of the garden set up; http://www.aa.edu/sustainability.