Equipping Teachers, Parents and Students for Distance Learning
As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, schools are closing their doors in an effort to slow the spread and protect students, educators and their families — some for days, weeks or perhaps even longer. …
Students Make Big Impact in Community through Local Wildlife Project
“We want to help animals.”
That was what Place Network teacher, Hilary Hays, heard from her Mountain Academy kindergarten and first grade students (the Moon Stars) at the start of their year-long project. …
Preparing Educators for the Place-Based Education Classroom
Industrialized education is dead. Young people absorbing content absent of context creates factory workers for the Industrial Age, not leaders for the 21st century. In the beginning, Teton Science Schools operated in the informal education sector by creating opportunities for high school students to learn through “doing science” on public lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. …
Diving into Place-Based Education: Design Thinking
The world faces design hurdles every single day. Whether it’s our most prestigious scientists and politicians understanding how our global economies can curb climate change, our local civil engineers figuring out how to design a new development in town or even our own school administrators dealing with challenging pick-up and drop-off processes, …
In Place-Based Classrooms, How Students Learn Science is Never the Same
Imagine this scenario. You’re a new middle school student, excited to dive into biology class for the first time. You arrive to class on the first day and receive your text book–the same text book that has been used in your elementary school classes for the last three years. …
The Language of Art and Materials in Reggio Emilia Classrooms
Ask a group of people to define the word “art” and you’re bound to receive a multitude of answers. For some it may render definitions alluding to finished products we’d see in a museum, …
AmeriCorps Alums Unpack the Myths of Jackson Hole in New Podcast
Long before Jesse Bryant and Hannah Habermann came together to create and launch their new podcast, “Yonder Lies: Unpacking the Myths of Jackson Hole,” they met as students on a course with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). …
Diving into Place-Based Education: Local ↔ Global Learning
Imagine this. In a rural middle school in Idaho, eighth grade students are studying housing in their region and around the world. As they prepare to build a tiny house that will be auctioned off to raise awareness for their local housing crisis, …
This School is Putting Students at the Helm of Their Own Learning Environments
When Place Network partner, Mountain River School, started the 19-20 school year on a brand new campus, the teachers and administrators didn’t just see it as a fresh start in a new building, …
Learning Shouldn’t Stop in Summer: 6 Benefits of Summer Camp
Summer camp. It’s a time that many of us as adults look back on fondly. We remember the thrill of building a fire with flint and steel for the first time, or the carefree afternoons spent hiking or watercoloring under the sun. …
