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TBA

Optional Friday Theme Day: Team Spirit

11:00am MDT

Registration Open Mt. Sopris A&B

1:30pm MDT

Bus Tour: School Garden Tour - NorthFULL Bus Departure at Welton St. Exit by CourierChris Woodburn • Spencer King • Matt Suprunowicz Bus Tour: School Garden Tour - SouthFILLING Bus Departure at Welton St. Exit by CourierLara Fahnestock Preparing Racial Justice Leaders & Exploring Restorative Practices in the Garden & BeyondFILLING Grays Peak (2nd Floor of office building across drive)Rachel Willis • Olivia Webster • Arely Garcia • Robyn Pratt Field Trip: Community Compost Hub WorkshopFILLING Bus Departure at Welton St. Exit by CourierAustine Luce, PhD • Rachel Bruhnke Mindfulness in School GardensFULL Bus Departure at Welton St. Exit by CourierRob Payo • Nathan Kennard Larson • Judy Elliott Greenhouse to Cafeteria – Interactive Workshop & Umoⁿhoⁿ Nation ExampleFULL Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Delberta Frazier • Justin Carter • Sarah Smith • Andrea Alma (she/her) School Gardens as a Gateway to Local Knowledge, Sense of Place, and Cultural RelevancyFULL Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Moses Thompson • Brit Palomarez • Selene Leva • Daniel Stange • Stacy Evans

2:00pm MDT

Urban Foraging, Culinary Climate Action Workshop and Yoga - Earth Day Celebration with Eco Hip-Hop Artist DJ Cavem McNichols Civic Center BuildingDJ Cavem

2:30pm MDT

Teaching How to Taste, Explore, and Delight in VegetablesFULL Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Lilly Steirer • Nikki Knaddison

3:00pm MDT

Teaching the Social Justice Standards through the School GardenLIMITED Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Jenna Mobley

4:45pm MDT

Young Professional Huddle Kick-OffFULL Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)

5:30pm MDT

Welcome Networking & General Session Capitol Peak (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Dominike' Bowman • Sedrick Burton • T. Marie King • Whitney Cohen • Lyndsey Waugh

6:15pm MDT

Dinner Reception Crystal Peak (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)

8:00pm MDT

Drop the Beet (Dance Party!)LIMITED Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Laurel Smith • Zach Lynn Improv Games and FunLIMITED Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Daniel Barrera Ortega In the gARTenFULL Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Jill Altomare • Rebecca Slosberg

TBA

Optional Saturday Theme Day: Food and Farming Couture

6:30am MDT

Open Meditation RoomLIMITED Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive) Optional Saturday Morning Run Depart from Main LobbyLinda Appel Lipsius Optional Saturday Morning Walk Depart from Main Lobby Optional Saturday Morning YogaFULL Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Maceo Hastings Porro

7:00am MDT

Registration and Information Desk

7:30am MDT

Breakfast Aspen Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)

8:45am MDT

Saturday Welcome and General Session Colorado Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)John Fisher • Jose Gonzalez • Dilafruz Williams

10:00am MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

10:30am MDT

Fostering Equitable and Inclusive School Gardening ProgramsLIMITED Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Lauren Zappone Maples • Neha Shah Pride, Prejudice and Progress: Reclaiming and Reframing Our RootsFULL Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Eva Barinas • Judit Camacho • Wanda Stewart Better Together: How Mt Diablo USD Built and Interdepartmental Collaborative to Sustain School Garden ProgrammingLIMITED Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Jennifer Sachs • Dominic Machi • Laney Cline King • Melanie Koslow STEM In the Garden: How School Gardening for SC Educators is Growing to Meet the Challenges of Creating and Sustaining Outdoor Garden ClassroomsLIMITED Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Amy Dabbs • Ben Sease • Patricia Whitener Use it or Lose it: Maintaining long-term garden programmingFILLING Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Dr. Kim Furtado • Shandra Furtado Developing a food safety plan for your school garden: keeping it safe and funLIMITED Grays Peak A (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Kirsten Saylor • Annalisa Hultberg Integrated Wellness Education in a University-based Edible GardenLIMITED Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)Heide Gutierrez • Joel Kirksey • Jason Watkins Cultivating Young Leaders through a Cooperative Garden BusinessLIMITED Grays Peak B (2nd floor in the office building across the main drive)Lauren Newman • Willa Pohlman Grow, COOK, Eat, Compost, Repeat: Learn how and why to connect cooking to your garden programmingLIMITED Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Jessica Eves • Carole Jensen • Grace McGuirk • Kimberly Orias From the Toolshed: Leading a School Garden WorkshopLIMITED Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Amy Bowman • Doug Vernon Growing Garden Leaders, Not Just Garden Weeders! A Replicable School Garden Leadership Training Series for your SGSOLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Becky Sponholtz • Jenn Morgenthal • Kelly Wilson • Tiffany Torres • Emily Grant

11:45am MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

12:00pm MDT

Lunch & Networking by Role/Job Type and Solution Session Colorado Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)

1:30pm MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

2:00pm MDT

Bringing Inclusive Practices into your NGSS Garden ClassroomLIMITED Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)Luisa Aviles • Sara Severance The Story of Our Food: Gardening & Cooking to Build Awareness and Acceptance of CulturesFILLING Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Regi Jones • Zach O'Donnell Our Garden Mocktail Mix: Teachers, Models, and AdvocacyLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Lily Chaleff • Macayla Cote • Veronique Ok Garden to Cafeteria: Connecting School Gardens and Food Service Management CompaniesFILLING Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Bill Whitcomb • Erin Maidlow • Rick Sherman Sowing Seeds & Planning the GardenLIMITED Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Casey Blake • Whitney Pratt Grow & Preserve Food using NGSS/STEMLIMITED Grays Peak A (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Brie Wakeland Muszynski • Hope Sickmeier Teaching and Learning Resilience, Community Building and Wellness through Garden EducationFILLING Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Moses Thompson • Ellie Cosgrove • Rebecca Slosberg • Sallie Marston Growing Our Youngest Gardeners--Garden Design and Creative Education for preK & Elementary SchoolsFILLING Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Molly Gassaway • Susannah Fotopulos Literacy and Wonder Writing in the GardenLIMITED Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Edward Goldstein (Session Creator Only, Not Attending) • Kelly Hedberg Music & Movement in the GardenLIMITED Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Symon Hajjar Seeds Of RegenerationLIMITED Grays Peak B (2nd floor in the office building across the main drive)Karen Rodriguez • Meghan Manion

3:30pm MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

4:00pm MDT

Affinity Group: African-American/Black Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive) Affinity Group: Elders Working in School Gardens Grays Peak B (2nd floor in the office building across the main drive) Affinity Group: LGBTQIA+ Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive) Affinity Group: People of Color Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive) Affinity Group: People who Work with Middle Schoolers Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive) Affinity Group: Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive) Affinity Group: White and Looking to Dismantle Racism Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive) Space for Self-Organized Affinity Groups Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive) Space for Self-Organized Affinity Groups Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive) Space for Self-Organized Affinity Groups Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)

5:00pm MDT

Flex Time and Dinner On Your Own (Gift Cards Provided) TBA

5:15pm MDT

Young Professional Huddle Hotel Lobby

TBA

Optional Theme Day: Flower and Pollinator Power

6:30am MDT

Open Meditation Room Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive) Optional Sunday Morning Run Depart from Main LobbySara Severance Optional Sunday Morning Walk Depart from Main Lobby Optional Sunday Morning YogaLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Brie Wakeland Muszynski

7:00am MDT

Registration and Information Desk Colorado Foyer

7:30am MDT

Breakfast Aspen Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel) FoodCorps Family Breakfast MeetUp Aspen Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)Tiffany Torres • Olivia Webster

8:45am MDT

Sunday Welcome & General Session Colorado Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)Wanda Stewart • Kristen Bailey • Jaimie Davis • Blanca Guerra • Veronica Gutierrez • Eulalia Mateo • Sasha Solano-McDaniel • John Fisher • Whitney Cohen

10:00am MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

10:30am MDT

Speak their language: Easy peas-y impact communications for diverse stakeholdersFILLING Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Beth Bacon • Amelia Bird • Jessie Tartanian • John Fisher Cultivating Relationships for Long Term SuccessLIMITED Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)Sylvia Bernal • Katie Poirier • Paige Mollen Germination of a K-12 Garden PipelineLIMITED Grays Peak A (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Megan Charlton • Jill Staton Pros and cons of AmeriCorps staffing modelLIMITED Grays Peak B (2nd floor in the office building across the main drive)Erica Curry • George Spencer • Hope Sickmeier • Laura Plaut Food Forests for Schools- Designing Your Outdoor ClassroomFULL Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Karen DeLeon • Deborah La Belle That’sTasty! Garden and Cafeteria Connections Through Taste TestsLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Kali Ransom • Morgan McGhee Cultivating Future Engineers in the GardenLIMITED Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Non-Presenting Co-Author: Emily Harris • Sara Severance Garden Science Storyline: What “Should We” Do?LIMITED Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Anna Johnson • Sharon Siehl Sowing Seeds: Growing Garden Leaders through Coaching and MentoringFULL Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Sue Hogan

11:45am MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

12:00pm MDT

Lunch & Networking by Region Aspen Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)

1:00pm MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

1:15pm MDT

Concurrent Lightning Talks - Session AFILLING Crystal Peak (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)Zach O'Donnell • Alisha Burrell • Cecilia de Botton Campbell • Cheri Long • Grace McGuirk • Brian Tomé Concurrent Lightning Talks - Session BLIMITED Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Elizabeth Hernandez • Maceo Hastings Porro • Diana Alcantara • Jacqueline Lacey • Meghan Manion • Lou Rodarte • Kris De la Torre Concurrent Lightning Talks - Session CLIMITED Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Jeanne Toscano • Honi Alexander • Nicole Chandler • Emily Gallivan • Lydia Olivier • Daniel Barrera Ortega • Katie Poirier Concurrent Lightning Talks - Session DLIMITED Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Judit Camacho • Sam Koentopp • Kim Aman • Marielle Hampton • Megan Gladbach • Mercedes Tichenor • Nan Pena

2:15pm MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

2:45pm MDT

Unique History / Shared Place: Connecting through Multicultural Gardens in Common GroundLIMITED Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Lorie Hammond • Kris De la Torre Vocational and Soft Skills in the Garden: Examples From Two Model ProgramsLIMITED Grays Peak B (2nd floor in the office building across the main drive)Michael Craig • Kaci Rae Christopher From the Ground Up: Three perspectives on building a districtwide school garden program.FULL Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Chelsea Moody • Kirsten Saylor • Jeannine Rizzo • Jill Westlund • Matthew Hargis • Nanique Gheridian Community Gardens as a ClassroomLIMITED Grays Peak A (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Kristen Bailey • Lara Fahnestock • Nessa Mogharreban • Bianca Pineda Using Social-Emotional Learning to Teach the Whole ChildLIMITED Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Brie Wakeland Muszynski • Sydney Callahan Building and Institutionalizing a Sustainable School Garden Program Incorporating Horticultural Science Curriculum.LIMITED Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Cecilia de Botton Campbell • Dan Brown Climate Justice and the Outdoor ClassroomLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Helen Toledo • Abby Randall Cultivate your Classroom- Interdisciplinary Pre-K through 5th Grade Lessons with FoodPrints Curriculum!LIMITED Pike's Peak (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Sakina Barthe-Sukhera • Sophia Dorsey • Jenn Mampara • Jill Peralta Demystifying STEM Education: Integrating hands-on engineering activities and culturally relevant literature in K-5 garden classroomsLIMITED Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Jeanne Toscano • Maxwell Watson • Meghan Nealon Digging Deeper Using Microscopes in the GardenLIMITED Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)Shital Parikh What's the Buzz? Learn about honey bees, native bees and other pollinators as we uncover their plight and discover strategies that empower the students to become the future change makers for these incredible an...LIMITED Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Carley Fisher-Maltese • Shannon Hardwicke

4:15pm MDT

Flex Time

4:30pm MDT

Optional Icebreaker/Game Swap Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Alexis Burnley • Elle Adams • Erin Vick Optional Kids Garden Community Overview and Feedback SessionLIMITED Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Em Shipman • Sarah Lane Optional Slow Food USA Wellness Committee Policy Toolkit to Support School Gardens - Peer Review SessionLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Cynthia Walters Optional Song CircleLIMITED Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive)Ary Solomon Optional StorytellingFULL Grays Peak A (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Joy Moore • Ramona Moore Big Eagle Optional: SGSO Network Meet & Greet and Feedback Hang Out Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive) Young Professional Huddle Hotel Lobby

5:30pm MDT

Dinner Reception Hosted by DJ Cavem and Denver Youth Culinary Teams Colorado Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)

6:30am MDT

Open Meditation Room Crystal Peak C (38th Floor of office building across the main drive) Optional Monday Morning Run Depart from Main LobbyLinda Appel Lipsius Optional Monday Morning Walk Depart from Main Lobby Optional Monday Morning YogaLIMITED Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Brie Wakeland Muszynski Optional Monday Morning ZumbaLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)McKenzie Fox

7:00am MDT

Registration and Information Desk Colorado Foyer

7:30am MDT

Breakfast Aspen Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)

8:45am MDT

Closing General Session - Monday Colorado Ballroom (2nd floor of hotel)Honi Alexander • Djamila Moore • Stephen Ritz • Tristana Pirkl

10:00am MDT

Break Outside breakout sessions (please enjoy the break outside your next session)

10:30am MDT

Grant Writing 101 - FUNDING IS POSSIBLELIMITED Capitol Peak A (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Stephen Ritz Voices from the Community: Trends in Mental Health and Supporting Kids with Special Needs in the GardenFILLING Mt. Evans (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Mireille Bakhos • Amanda Kelly • Chris Woodburn • Linda Appel Lipsius Results from TX Sprouts, a school-based gardening, nutrition, and cooking randomized trial examining the effects in low-income Hispanic children and review the School Garden Sustainability Survey and ScorecardLIMITED Crystal Peak B (38th floor of office building across the main drive)Jaimie Davis • Katie Nikah Slow Food USA School Garden NetworkLIMITED Capitol Peak B (38th floor of the office building across the main drive)Cynthia Walters • Kim Aman • Neha Shah GOOD SCHOOL FOOD: An Educational and Apprenticeship ModelLIMITED Crystal Peak A (38th floor in the office building across the main drive)Leah Hillman • Jerone Wiggins • Shun Mack Providing Effective Support to School Gardens in your RegionLIMITED Mt. Elbert A (2nd floor of office building across main drive)Lee Coykendall • Sam Ullery All hands on decking, digging and drought! A deep dive into sustainable garden design through a hands-on workshop, virtual garden tour and insight into a drought centered curriculum.LIMITED Mt. Elbert B (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Ben Goodrich • Sorrell Redford Food Literacy Connections Through Reading Books & GardeningLIMITED Grays Peak A (2nd floor of office building across the main drive)Sam Koentopp • Marie Dennan Re-propagating Locally: Rooting Evidence-Based Garden Lessons in Local ContextLIMITED Grays Peak B (2nd floor in the office building across the main drive)Erica Curry • Tasha Gomes