New Dawn Curriculum

  • Student-run reforestation projects
  • Community gardens and student-run farmer’s market
  • Street theater, stilt-walking, and music
  • Permaculture and climate change
  • Maya history, culture, mathematics and handicrafts
  • Q’echi’, Mam, and Q’anjob’al languages (in addition to Spanish and English)
  • Oral history interviews with elders
  • Field trips to sacred and historical sites
  • Murals and public art
  • Solid curriculum in mathematics, science, and writing


Teaching students to care for Mother Earth

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Planting Peanuts
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Working Collectively
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Street theater for the earth
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“Mother Earth gives us life: she can’t be sold or exploited.”

 

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Learning to make compost
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Bagging compost
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The finished product…

 

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Creating farmer’s markets for local foods
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Finding alternatives to commercial packaging

Chocolate making from start to finish

Creating family gardens

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  • Contribute to household economy
  • Care for the soil with organic inputs
  • Contribute to health and nutrition
  • Create a more diverse diet
  • Encourge collaborative work
  • Learn about organic agriculture
The possibilities are endless
Reforesting our lands