GLT Institute
Harvesting Our Knowledge, Growing It Forward
The GLT Institute is an ongoing educational initiative created by GLTI Founder and President and former educator George Irwin.
Like every great educational program, the GLT Institute provides a baseline of support, in-service trainings and teacher’s guides to adapt the tools to the learner and parallel the existing outcomes and objectives. The institute encourages schools and educators to add their own touch to the base programs, which are designed around Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) and reach from kindergarten all the way up through university-level courses.
The curriculum is centered on the Mobile Edible Wall Unit or MEWU, and is available in two configurations. The MEWU Plug and Play, perfect for Pre-K and up, is the most advanced living wall system to date, containing 90 standard 4” pots making it ideal for the youngest of learners while keeping them safe and clean at their desk or work area. Each pot is recycled HDPE and can be used over and over again to grow herbs, leafy greens and the like, while providing an enriched learning environment throughout the year. The MEWU is delivered as a kit in preparation for immediate use and is on wheels so it can be easily rolled through standard doors, in and out of elevators and up ramps. Weather permitting, it can be rolled outdoors to complement the school garden program.
Unlike other garden programs, MEWU programing starts in September and continues until June. Traditional, outdoor school gardens start in March or April, with valuable learning opportunities lost when school ends for summer vacation.
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University’s and schools learn about green roof installations in an authentic setting! This is ideal for practical experience that include students, staff and supporting school personal. You’re school can have green roofs for pennies on the dollar as a larger curriculum when you do the installation, teach the technology in classes and/or contact us to help you design a curriculum for green roofs, green walls and vertical / root top agriculture. We provide consulting, design and product materials to support the curriculum.
Students from The Bronx Discovery High School Installing Green Living Roofs as Part of a Curriculum
