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Carthay CDI Featured On "Inside California Education"

"Dancing into Academics: Learning Step by Step"

Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet: New Programs, New Vitality: Imagine a place with banana, apple and other fruit trees, lush gardens growing vegetables of all shapes and sizes, chickens scratching, and burbling water tanks where fish produce nutrients for the dangling roots of plants, which, in turn, clean the water for the fish.  It’s an oasis of calm and green, just steps away from busy city streets, where children learn not only about the beautiful garden, but where the garden – and learning in and about the wider physical, outdoor world – colors every subject they study, as well as how they learn.  For example, when a first grade teacher teaches students to read the word “apple,” and shares a book about the fruit…a master gardener plucks a few ripe orbs off a nearby tree for the students to taste.  This “Garden of Possibilities” exists…and it’s the bedrock of the Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet.