Suzanne Wadsworth

In Wadsworth's "Growing Plants, Growing Minds" program, she uses the concepts of horticulture and growing plants to help Dixie Heights High School students gain a rich cross-curricular experience. The horticulture students will design and construct gardens on the school grounds that will be used as learning spaces. Students have already studied how to develop soil, grow seedlings, raise beds, produce compost and plan which items to grow. Other areas of the school's curriculum will have a stake in the program as well. Students in Business Information Technology will market and sell the plants and produce. Those in Visual Performing Arts and Media will use plants to create living art flower beds to replicate impressionist paintings and make natural dyes. The Law Education Health and Human Services students will grow herbs and vegetables for cooking and will study medical uses for plants. Finally, students in Science Technology Engineering and Math will study genetics and practice cross-pollination and seed harvesting. Ultimately, a greenhouse will be constructed at the school, which will make the program year-round. Wadsworth resides in Villa Hills.