Connecting to Community & Place while Social Distancing
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Whether you are practicing social distancing at home, caring for a loved one who is ill or trying to make sense of an uncertain and fast-evolving public health crisis, things have been feeling pretty heavy over the last couple of weeks. …
Equipping Teachers, Parents and Students for Distance Learning
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, …