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 ...

Design an explicit, three-part learning sequence: The learning sequence starts with a pre-visit phase, followed by an outdoor visit phase, followed by a post-visit phase. Each part of the sequence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, in the ancient world, the word 'genius' was not so much used about individual people, it was used about places, and almost always with the world loci. Genius loci meant 'the spirit of a place.' ...

WASHINGTON ― The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced awards totaling $2 million to support eight projects that engage children ...

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 ...

Situated in a meeting room overlooking the Mississippi River, six project directors and their evaluators gathered at the Tulane River and Coastal Center in New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the first ...

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 ...