SUSTAIN. ABILITY.
Hi, I'm Anne!
Teaching is my second career and first love. I believe that everything I've learned and experienced has brought me to this moment.
I was raised in the middle of southern Michigan farmland in a town that boasted two respected liberal arts colleges. I ran my first farm-produce resale business at 8. I've been a gardener since the age of 13. I've attended the Lenawee County Fair from birth and dreamed of 4H membership, but we lived in town. I thrive in rural and urban settings. I get a little antsy in suburbia.
I'm in the early years of developing an Education for Sustainability (EfS) program at Brittany Woods Middle School in University City, Missouri. The world is our learning lab and we use chickens, gardens, bees, and cooking to foster each middle schoolers natural inclination toward entreneurship, leadership, advocacy, and critical thinking. We work toward a just world for all living things.
I welcome any opportunity to visit national parks with family, cook for people I love, and slowly tackle the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. I want to figure things out and grow with people. Middle schoolers are my favorite teachers and mentors.
​
Our Work at Brittany Woods
People who visit our Sustainability Program at BWMS are pretty impressed with with our classroom, Seed to Table kitchen, and outdoor learning spaces. They compliment the gardens, bees, and chickens. Our outdoor sink gets rave reviews.
They should. It was ALL dreamed, designed, and built by children.
​
That's the REAL story of Brittany Woods. Visitors may think the physical manifestation of our work is the achievement, but that's not the headline. Every thing we have--EVERY. LAST. THING. --was breathed into life by our resilient and hard working middle schoolers.
​
​