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Looking to grow as an educator? Queens Botanical Garden is committed to supporting you! We offer a variety of professional learning options ranging from introductions to inquiry to school gardening.
Our programs are aligned with the New York State Learning Standards. Programs are aimed at helping equip teachers with the skills and content to enliven their classrooms and engage their students in science learning. QBG’s Teacher Professional Learning Program is an approved CTLE sponsor.
New teacher workshops will be posted in the upcoming months!
For more information, please contact
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718.886.3800 ext. 371
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Workshops for Groups of Teachers
Making Science Whole: Integrating Social Justice and Science
August 18 to August 23, 2025
8am to 4:30pm
Course is eligible for: 45 CTLE Hours & 3 P-Credits or A+ Credits
Are you interested in learning how to bring social justice and interdisciplinary frameworks to your science classroom? We will reveal that integrating science and social justice makes science whole.  Join us as we collaboratively build a learning community that centers the importance of inclusion and uprooting injustice. During this workshop, you will model the importance of dialogue in an inclusive classroom and make meaningful steps to determine what justice looks like in the classroom and the community. You will develop a critical lens to examine our own schools, classrooms, and material to identify opportunities to integrate social justice in your curriculum. In the words of Desmond Tutu, “we can only be human together,” and by learning together, we can free each other, together.
To request a workshop for eight or more teachers,  please
CLICK HERE
If you are an individual teacher looking for a workshop, please email
[email protected]
Our educators provide custom programs for your educators’ needs. Sample topics include:
Half-Day or Full-Day Workshops
• Easy and Exciting Classroom Gardening
• Trees
• Observations with Plants—How Do Scientists Think?
• Exploring Botany and Ecology
• The Waste Stream
• Using the Garden to Teach Math and ELA (day or multiple sessions)
Multiple Session Workshops
• Ecology in the Urban Environment—from microbes to macrobes
• Sustainability in the Community
• Urban School Gardening
Photo Credit
: Anne Tan-Detchkov, QBG Staff