Planning and tending a garden is an avenue for all students to build character and gain skills. It allows special needs students have the opportunity to expand their capabilities in a collaborative, hands-on setting.
Tracy is an Environmental Education Coordinator at the DeVries Nature Conservancy in Owosso, Michigan. She has shared PLT with thousands of educators.
Trish is an Education Coordinator at the Laramie Rivers Conservation District in Wyoming. She has educated thousands of adults and children using PLT programs.
Joy Barney is a conservation education program specialist with the U.S. Forest Service who coordinates environmental programs around Lake Tahoe in California.
Susan Campbell, Education Coordinator with the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Natural Areas in Texas, educates thousands of people each year.
Joan Chadde is the Education Program Coordinator at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, where she also teaches a course called Communicating Science.
Diane St. Jean teaches reading at Barrington Middle School in Barrington, New Hampshire, where she uses PLT to connect her students to their local forest.
Michael Stewart is a naturalist with the Miami County Park District in Troy, Ohio, where he also serves as a PLT facilitator.
Ginger Reasonover is a science lab coordinator who uses PLT with preK through fourth grade students at David Lipscomb Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Barbara Dunbar is the 4-H Environmental Program Coordinator at Virginia Cooperative Extension in Yorktown, as well as a Virginina Master Naturalist.
