Grab a backpack and maybe a pair of garden gloves and head to homeroom at Oakley Elementary School, where learning often looks more like a farm than a traditional classroom.
Chickens cluck as students rush to collect eggs. Butter churns as children chant encouragement. Sometimes, there isn’t a classroom at all just fresh air, soil under fingernails, and lessons rooted in real life.
At the center of it all is Tomanekka Irving, the school’s STEM-agriculture teacher, whose class has become so popular that administrators say families have moved into the district specifically to enroll their children.
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