What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

Growing up in a rural farming community, Dr. Jodie Winship understood that education was important but, for many, not possible due to poverty, commitments to family farming businesses and a host of ...

Correction: This story and photo captions have been updated to correct the spelling of Green School lead coordinator Eradajere Oleita’s name. Detroit — After deciding, in class, what they would add to ...

On an overpass in North Portland overlooking Interstate 5, Kathryn Nock and Jordan Stokes are taking stock of the neighborhood, including nearby Harriet Tubman Middle School. “It’s kind of hard to ...

New Tech Network (NTN) is a national non-profit organization based in Napa, California, that partners with districts and communities to develop innovative K-12 learning environments. Schools in the ...

The K–12 school on Akutan Island in the Aleutian chain has two teachers. Last year was the first time they were local Unangax̂ residents — and they're continuing to teach this year. The teachers say ...

Nittany Valley Charter School students visit the White House in Washington, D.C., as part of its “place-based learning” initiative. Photo provided What do polishing brass lights, planting trees, ...

During the fall semester, nearly 40 Burr and Burton students completed the inaugural term of new, integrative half-day ...

Murie Ranch, in the Grand Teton National Park, is often called the birthplace of the modern conservation movement. It was home to Olaus Murie and his wife Mardy. Olaus was president of the Wilderness ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - More than 1,000 public school students embarked Tuesday on an immersive week of voyaging-based and ʻāina-based learning with the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Hoʻākea is a ...

In the article “Nittany Valley Charter School embarks on ‘place-based learning’ ” published in the CDT’s Family Pages on Monday, there is mention of being able to learn outside the classroom in a more ...

Questions abound about the state of liberal arts and sciences colleges post-pandemic. Will they survive? Will they thrive? Will remote learning, now firmly part of our educational tool kit, remain a ...