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View our Model & Results

I recently gave an overview presentation of our work, and here it is for your viewing. US Presentation, CAFB Feb-10 View more presentations from Abby Jaramillo. This presentation was originally prepared by Lisa, Adriani and I for the Network for a Healthy California. I added a bit to this version, given at a meeting hosted [...]

February 23, 2010   Posted in: curriculum, evaluation, gbemodel, nutrition  Comments Closed

Study Results Published!

If you are familiar with the story of Urban Sprouts’ origin, you’ll know that Dr. Michelle Ratcliffe conducted her doctoral research project on the impacts of school gardens at three SF public schools during the 2003-04 school year. Now, the results of Michelle’s study have been published!

January 7, 2010   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  Comments Closed

Urban Sprouts Grows Up

We’ve reached a milestone! Urban Sprouts has just finished a three-year funding cycle with the Network for a Healthy California’s Local Food and Nutrition Education channel. Phew! We’ve grown and matured so much during these three years – from a mostly-volunteer staff of one, to a strong team of five serving 7 schools and over [...]

October 9, 2009   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  Comments Closed

Accomplishments 2008-2009

Summer is a great time to reflect on the past school year, all that we’ve accomplished and the challenges to come in the year ahead. Please follow this link to read up on all that we’ve accomplished during the 2008-2009 school year! Still to come, we will post a report of all the exciting evaluation [...]

August 6, 2009   Posted in: evaluation  Comments Closed

2009 Childhood Obesity Conference

Tomorrow at the 2009 Childhood Obesity Conference in LA, I’ll be presenting on Urban Sprouts’ program model for garden-based education and our recent evaluation results! This work is a partnership with Portland, Oregon’s Ecotrust, and also shows off their accomplishments in Farm to School and creating locally grown and produced school lunches. If you’d like [...]

June 9, 2009   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel  2 Comments

Learn about the GBE Model

Tomorrow I’ll be presenting on Urban Sprouts’ Garden-based Education Model — the theoretical framework that guides all our programs — at the Network for a Healthy California’s annual conference. I’ll also give an overview of our results from our 2006-2008 Program Evaluation. You can look through my slides, below. They make a lot more sense [...]

March 2, 2009   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  Comments Closed

Our Results: 2007-2008

Outcomes and Activities:During the 2007-2008 school year, Urban Sprouts planned to reach 500 students in the 6th through 12th grades at five San Francisco public schools serving the city’s most under-served neighborhoods. Urban Sprouts greatly surpassed this goal, reaching a total of 728 students this year. Urban Sprouts partnered with five schools: Aptos Middle School, [...]

June 30, 2008   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  Comments Closed