Notes from the classroom

What we’re learning about food, growing, and kids.

Why microgreens (and why students actually eat them)

Kids reach for chips over vegetables for a reason. Here’s why a pot of microgreens on a student’s desk changes that, from a coriander root that surprised me to a classroom of kids asking for seconds.

Patch RawanghetCurriculum Design, BYFP · September 2026 · 5 min read

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Social-Emotional Learning · August 2026

SEL and the classroom grow lab: what it is, and how we build it in

SEL is on every district priority list, but it’s easier to gesture at than to teach. Here’s what it actually is, the research behind it, and why a seed on a child’s desk turns out to teach patience, responsibility and care.