Place Based Education

6 Elements of Thriving Learners

Randy Fielding and Nathan Strenge share how cultivating six elements of thriving learners will make a deep and last social impact.

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New Pathways

New Small Community Based Schools Have Big Implications

Gem Prep is launching several microschools called Learning Societies across Idaho that will be using their online schools curriculum, with experienced parents running the sites at locations including churches, homes, and business office space.

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Learner-Centered

Centering Relationships at Anastasis Academy

Anastasis Academy in Colorado centers student relationships and a creative, spiraling, inquiry-driven curriculum to drive powerful, deeper student learning.

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Competency-Based Education

The Four C’s of Student Success

Stephanie Malia Krauss explores how the 4C’s of student success must be pursued with as much attention, passion, and focus as the 4C’s of reopening schools.

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Personalized Learning

Place-Based Learning: Solid Ground in Troubled Waters

By incorporating a sense of place in instruction, teachers and community partners have adapted programs to keep students engaged even during distance learning. Jack Chin explores how place-based experiences shape learners for today's world.

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Project-Based Learning

Santa Ynez Valley Union High: An Organic Project-Based Learning Journey

This chronicles one high school’s new and recent journey in an organic implementation of problem and project-based learning. Teachers and students are pushing forward with student voice and choice, civic engagement, student ownership and sharing high quality, public work.

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