Harvest Education is a 6-12 Week Program designed to promote empathetic understanding through humanitarian efforts and research. It’s secondary goals are to both implement and introduce anthropology as both a complementary discipline to existing reading, STEAM, and Humanities courses for grades 1-12, and also as a career exploration program. Each Harvest program is uniquely designed to fit the special needs of not only the school but the classroom. All individual units are centered around both the teaching and execution of ethnographic and participant observation to support the following anthropological tenants:​​
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​Culture is Learned, shared, adaptive, and symbolic
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Cultural Relativism: The belief that cultures should be understood on their own terms, without judgment or comparison to other cultures.
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Holism: The study of culture as a whole, rather than focusing on isolated aspects.
We believe that these ideas as expressed through classroom engagement can promote improvement in empathic understanding, mutual respect, and the positive development of a healthy personal identity and creativity. These ideas collaboratively also improve critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving abilities in children.
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Inaugural classes begin in January 2025. There is still room available to accommodate your school for a 6, 10, 0r 12 week program. Enrollment has already opened for our 2025 Juneteenth Summer Program in Collaboration with Emancipated Minds and prospectively SOAL.