Green Teacher Gathering: Full Schedule

10:30am CDT

The 8 Ingredient Showdown

Saturday April 5, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am CDT

Participants will explore the importance of teamwork, with the hope that it motivates and creates connectedness, empathy, understanding, and support for one another. Participants will begin by reflecting on this question: What is difficult about making a choice? Participants will then be provided 8 random ingredients. They will then be asked to taste each of those ingredients in its raw form. They will then be formed into teams and asked to create and execute the dish they created using all 8 of the ingredients provided and will have to present dish to “judges”. We believe through this form of experiential engagement these concepts will translate to other areas of their lives.

Speakers

Sebastian White

Founder, Executive Director, Chef, The Evolved Network

Sebastian White (he/him) is a trained psychotherapist and self-taught chef who worked with youth who were gang-involved, labeled “at-risk”, and struggling with the complexities of life. His work took a personal turn after the unexpected deaths of his aunt, Gwen Barjon, and his... Read More →

Saturday April 5, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Community Hall, 1st Floor Academy for Global Citizenship, 4942 W 44th St, Chicago, IL 60638

Food + Dance, All levels: for everyone

Host Organization The Evolved Network

1:00pm CDT

Bacteria is my Gut's BFF

Saturday April 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm CDT

Community Hall, 1st Floor

In this workshop teachers will learn about the function of the gut microbiome and what foods they can grow in their gardens and turn them into tasty prebiotics and probiotics.

There will be taste examples of homemade kombucha, and fermented goods a combination of cabbage, carrots, and hot peppers made by me, Chef BB from Roosevelt HS.

We will help teachers design one meal using aromatics: like garden herbs and
Bitters: like arugula, asparragus, dill, radishes and kale

Teachers will walk away with a recipe and methods to make their own kombucha, their own fermented veggies and we will talk about different fermented foods among different cultures and indigenous practices.
There will be a game - like check your knowledge to see how much teachers know about their digestice track.

Last but not least- How can we help our students achieve a good gut bacteria, and how to integrate this topic in our lessons.

Speakers

Sarai Blankenbaker

Teacher, Chicago Public Schools

My name is Sarai Blankenbaker (she/her). I am a proud CPS and CTE graduate from North Grand High School. I have a degree in Culinary Arts.I have worked in the food industry since my sophomore year of high school. This is where I first learned about urban agriculture, seasonal produce... Read More →

Saturday April 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm CDT
Community Hall, 1st Floor Academy for Global Citizenship, 4942 W 44th St, Chicago, IL 60638

Food + Dance, All levels: for everyone

2:30pm CDT

Kassa: A West African Harvest Dance

Saturday April 5, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT

Gym, 1st Floor

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn movement to the Malinke family of rhythms known as Kassa, which is played for farmers as they work. No prior dance experience is needed and movement can be modified for all body types and mobilities. Participants will leave the workshop with greater joy and greater knowledge of how music and movement factor into African diasporic agricultural practices. Learning African dance expands cultural awareness, focuses the mind, activates happiness, boosts cardiovascular health, tones and stretches muscles, enhances respiratory health, increases spatial awareness, promotes collaboration, expands communication skills, and builds camaraderie in the collective. Movement learned during this workshop can be used during movement breaks in educational settings for all ages. Educators and communities will benefit greatly from this fun and enriching workshop!

Speakers

Ayanna London

Co-Light Director of Events and Programs, Light of Loving Kindness

Ayanna London (she/her) is a multi-media artist, performer, educator, and reiki practitioner. She is a Chicago native who, along with her husband, facilitates meditations, teaches herbalism and mycology, leads plant walks, teaches yoga and breathwork, facilitates music circles, teaches... Read More →

Zen Frankie Johnson

Light of Loving Kindness

Zen Frankie (he/him) is a Vegan Chef, Meditation Teacher, Herbalist, and Mycologist who began prepping and cooking vegan food out of desire to heal himself of Crohns disease. Zen Frankie is founder of Zen Vegan Life — a vegan and alkaline food and drink delivery & catering company... Read More →

Saturday April 5, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Gym, 1st Floor Academy for Global Citizenship, 4942 W 44th St, Chicago, IL 60638

Food + Dance, All levels: for everyone

Host Organization Light of Loving Kindness

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