Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden will develop “Living Classrooms,” a new way to enrich and expand their informal education through live interpretation. The program will ensure that all visitors are given the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with plants and learn how plants connect to their lives. Through “Living Classrooms,” BBG will redesign and expand its drop-in Discovery Programs, create comprehensive self-guided materials for families and school groups, train staff and volunteer Garden Guides and Discovery Docents to use dialogue-based techniques, and create new topical tours that will engage BBG’s growing and diverse audience. By placing the learner at the center and delivering reimagined programs, the garden will help visitors connect plant science, conservation, sustainability, and ecosystem to the context of their own lives so that they might be inspired to become active stewards of the environment.