Lisa Sammeta (she/her)
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Garden Play Project
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My name is Lisa Martinez Sammeta, and I am former school teacher, garden educator and founder of Garden Play Project. I work in and around urban gardens and outdoor spaces throughout the San Jose area, aiming to cultivate meaningful connection to the land and to eachother. The idea for Garden Play Project began to take root during the six years I worked at Santa Clara University, in the Center for Sustainability. Over the course of that time, my Bronco Urban Gardens food justice program was recongized with SCU Operations Staff Award and Spirit of Ignatius Award. Additionally my six years in K-8 education, as San Jose Diocesen teacher, informed my beliefs in the importance of community engagement and unique potential of experiential learning.
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Garden Play Project is a culmination of lessons learned as an educator and parent. Both roles have taught me the deep need for belonging. In November 2021 Garden Play Project was formed, a 501c3 not for profit corporation. The mission being simply to support parents, community leadership, schools and other organizations in their efforts to cultivated joy and connection in their garden spaces. My journey into the nonprofit world as allowed for a range of new colloraborations, with place-based visions that hold space for children engagement and family participation within existing urban ecosystems. In this time I have had the privilage to work on the following garden projects:
La Mesa Verde | Kids Club Committee: Professional Development Workshop Series
In the summer and fall of 2022, worked with La Mesa Verde Kids Club committee members and Program Manager to design and implement a set of workshops for parents and caregivers enrolled La Mesa Verde garden program. Workshops focused on exploring outdoor education practices, serving to develop teaching skills and strategies to enhanced their food system work that engaged children in process of growing vegetables and building agricultural knowledge.
Veggielution | Eastside Grown Program: Curriculum Development
Sept 2022 - Feburary 2023, consulted as needed on Job to Grow online and in-person workshops to support educational objectives defined by the program director, collaborating with the program manager to develop teaching guides and other eduational material.
Veggielution | DIG Crew Program: Curriculum Development
Sept 2022 - May 2023, consulted as needed on DIG Crew internship to adapt specific environmetal education curriculum to meet program goals outlined by the program director and program manager, developing a set of guides as well as identifiy teaching strategies and practices to enhance the interns' experiences.
Educare of Silicon Valley | School Gardens & Outdoor Learning Partnership
July 2022 - current, Garden Play Project works in collaboration with many partnerships at Educare Silicon Valley, an early center, to support the teaching and learning in and around their varies gardens and outdoor spaces.
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