Place-Based Educator Leadership Conversations
For lead teachers and administrators who have participated in TSS Professional Learning, Place Network, or Field Education programs. Join this FREE quarterly conversation to discuss common challenges in place-based education. Hear updates from TSS, share experiences, and engage in breakout discussions with peers to explore strategies for your school or upcoming TSS trips.
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
Over seven weeks, explore theory and practice of place-based education. Gain practical skills for creating a place-based classroom, connecting curriculum to your local community, and guiding students to make positive community impacts. Learn to design learner-centered experiences, connect standards to place, and use local surroundings to deepen student learning and engagement.
Interdisciplinary Projects: Merging place-based education and project-based learning
In interdisciplinary, place-based projects, learning can match the real world where “traditional” subject area content, skills, and dispositions are learned through an integrated and relevant approach that achieves proficiency of multiple standards.
Early Childhood Stories Night: Place-based Project Stories from Preschool and Kindergarten Programs Across America
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Language of Materials Workshop: Sewing with Children
Inspired by Reggio Emilia, this workshop explores the “hundred languages” of children through sewing. Participants will learn basic techniques, tools, and strategies for engaging young children in creative sewing projects. Explore ways to inspire creativity, problem-solving, and exploration, while setting children and teachers up for success in studio-based, hands-on learning experiences.
Interdisciplinary Place-Based Projects: Merging Place and Project Based
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Introduction to Place-Based Education Virtual Course
Explore the theory and application of place-based education!
Centering the Learners in Place-Based Education
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