Barrio Innovation Community Academy
AZ(LAND) provides education both inside and outside the classroom. Through our ‘Barrio Innovation Community Academy’ We organize and participate in community events, engaging attendees and gathering community perspectives on local initiatives. As we embed ourselves in local community events our educational activities cover local history, centering native desert ecological solutions, and inequities. We use tactile, arts-based methods to engage community attendees that invite people of all ages and backgrounds to participate. This work intentionally engages with familiar and accessible spaces as we work to facilitate just transformations in our communities.
Barrio Innovation Educator Academy
Additionally, through our ‘Barrio Innovation Educator Academy,’ we focus on educator development , capacity building, curriculum co-creation, supporting environmental and racial justice education, and in classroom instruction. The educator academy provides low capacity short term classroom pop ins with the invite of K-12th grade educators or university professors. The educator academy also provides high capacity educator support. This involves co-creating project-based learning experiences, offering summer training around the Barrio Innovation approach, providing year-long teacher support, facilitating projects with the aim in addressing community inequities through curriculum implementation related to food sovereignty, water conservation, air quality, renewable energy, and increasing green spaces.
