The state of teaching in Nevada.
Nevada serves more than 490,000 K-12 students across two large districts (Clark and Washoe) and 15 smaller ones. Garden-based education exists in pockets: Urban Roots reaches thousands of students each year; UNR Cooperative Extension supports 4-H, Master Gardener, and FFA programs.
Most schools don’t have a pollinator unit, a school garden, or food-system curriculum. Teachers who want one usually have to build one.
What this pathway does for the work.
A single teacher reaches roughly 30 students a year, and roughly 900 students across a 30-year career. Multiply by 50 teachers running a pollinator unit and you have 45,000 Nevadans who grew up understanding why bees matter and where their food comes from.
How to actually do it.
- Urban Roots · curriculum, garden support, and classroom programs for Reno-area teachers.
- TMCC Bee Campus · campus-level pollinator programming and curriculum collaboration.
- Help Save the Bees Foundation · classroom presenter program and habitat curriculum support.
- Bees4Vets · beekeeping training and mentoring for veterans and first responders.
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