I was so lucky to be a part of an amazing Collaborative Design Charrette and Public Presentation today in Center City. I am so excited about this initiative which brought together experts like landscape achitects (including my talented friends at Viridian Landscape Studio) with community members, educators, parents, students, and school district officials. Our mission was to generate ideas and ultimately master plan sketches for the greening of two Philadelphia schoolyards: John B. Kelly School (a K-6 school just down the street from my Germantown house) and Lea School in West Philadelphia. I was able to draw on the research and conversations we have had here at AFS as we have planned the new outdoor initiative AFS Outdoors, especially around the ways that connections to nature foster deeper learning for people of all ages. The process and results were simply amazing, and it was so inspiring to be a part of this important work! 
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