Place-Based Educator Leadership Conversations

For lead teachers and administrators at schools who have participated with Teton Science Schools Professional Learning, Place Network, or Field Education programming. Looking for a thought partner to discuss common challenges related to place-based education either at your school or for your trip to Teton Science Schools? Join our FREE quarterly Place-Based Educator Leadership Conversations! We’ll share relevant updates from TSS and offer a range of topics for breakout room discussions.

Introduction to Place-based Education: Asynchronous Virtual Summer Course

In this seven-week asynchronous course, participants will explore the theory and application of Place-Based Education. They will gain practical skills and tools to get started with a place-based classroom experience. Participants will learn how to use the local community as their classroom, guide students to make a positive community impact, connect standards to place, and build learner-centered experiences.

Language of Materials Workshop: Exploring the Studio

In the Reggio Emilia philosophy, “The studio is not an isolated place where artistic things happen. It is a laboratory for thinking.” -Lella Gandini. Loris Malaguzzi, the founder of the Reggio Emilia philosophy, believed that young children have a hundred ways of speaking, listening, and being. Those languages should be encouraged and explored. When you invite a child to draw, the act of drawing creates a pathway for a child to express themselves more fully and more often than not a story or a dialogue accompanies their work.

Introduction to Place-based Education: Winter Asynchronous Virtual Course

In this seven-week asynchronous course, participants will explore the theory and application of Place-Based Education. They will gain practical skills and tools to get started with a place-based classroom experience. Participants will learn how to use the local community as their classroom, guide students to make a positive community impact, connect standards to place, and build learner-centered experiences.

Introduction to Place-based Education

Curious to know more about place-based education? Join us for this 90-minute virtual workshop to learn why place-based pedagogy is worthwhile and how you might already be using it, and to spark new ideas to increase student engagement and purpose.