STEA2M camp at the Orchard: A community cultural wealth approach

Urban Farm DB summary

This article describes an out-of-school STEA2M (science, technology, engineering, arts, agriculture, and math) program at the Orchard Community Learning Center, an urban farm in south Phoenix, Arizona. Run as a bilingual, project-based program, it draws on the community cultural wealth framework (aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant capital) to integrate students' and families' backgrounds into the curriculum through culturally sustaining pedagogy. The article presents the urban-farm setting as a context for hands-on STEA2M learning tailored to student interests, but reports no quantitative measurement of learning outcomes.