This year, Professional Learning continued to strengthen partnerships with schools, educators, and organizations across the country and around the world. Together, we advanced our shared vision that place-based education can inspire meaningful learning and foster thriving communities.
We reached several exciting milestones in our Place Network evaluation, gathering our most comprehensive student and school-level data to date. These results demonstrate clear trends: students are showing higher engagement, educators are reporting stronger well-being, and schools are deepening their connections with local communities. By aligning our efforts with our theory of change, we’re seeing how intentional, sustained implementation of place-based education creates lasting impact across multiple levels of the learning ecosystem.
This 2024-25 portfolio highlights the collective outcomes of that work. From student-led community action projects and teacher leadership programs to international collaborations that bring place-based practices to life in new contexts, each story and data point underscores the same message: when learning is grounded in place, everyone benefits.
Read on to learn about our recent successes.
