Teacher Allegra has been sharing the magic of nature with students since her first semester at Bard College, where she taught gardening to local students. A lifelong seed planter, she balanced agriculture work and adjunct instruction with a career in the fashion industry as a textile development technician until starting her family. Since then, she has focused her career on teaching environmental education and gardening, with a focus on permaculture, restorative practice, and seed stewardship.
Allegra loves a whole child approach to education, including encouraging emergent, student led, hands-on learning. She is trained in Quaker pedagogy, place-based education, and nature-based teaching. In her free time, Allegra loves hiking, foraging, thrifting, herbology, and farm to table cooking. She enjoys watching Arcane and listening to all kinds of music. Her favorite rehabilitated and released pets include a Leopard Frog and a DeKay’s Brownsnake. Allegra finds her joy in sharing nature with others, especially young people. She is a proud mom to a sixth grader, four rescue cats, and an ever growing collection of house plants.