Place-Based Education
Putting the City at the Heart Of Place-Based Education
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi. Place-Based Education practitioners seem to frame “place” primarily as rural or wild, with few examples featuring urban landscapes. Since the majority of us live in urban areas, let's also include PBE in the city.
4 Steps To Make Your Field Trip Matter
As a parent chaperone and keen observer of the teachers and hosts during my daughter's recent kindergarten class field trip, I picked up these four tips to help make these trips really matter for students.
Powerful School-Community Partnership Brings Learning to Life
By: Joe Weiss. Washington’s Highline Public School District provides an example of place-based learning made possible by powerful partnerships between the school district and local community resources in its Marine Science Technology program.
5 Levels of Place-Based Learning Implementation
By: Nate McClennen. As we approach the possibility of place-based learning at the center of education, here are five levels of PBE for teachers to review to help guide and characterize its implementation in their classroom.
Cool Schools: 3 High School Options in Tacoma
We recently visited three innovative high schools in the Tacoma Public School District that provide the area's 28,000 students opportunities to explore passions and connect to the community in deeper ways than you see at most high schools.
The Past, Present and Future of Place-Based Learning
By: Greg Smith. Place-based education has a long history in education, and this overview of PBE’s roots helps connect the future of place-based education to its rich past.
Novelty & Complexity: 13 Youth Onramps
The world is getting more complex, and globalization makes every sector more competitive. Here are 13 ways teachers can prepare students for the novelty and complexity they will face in a new world.
6 Starting Points for Place-Based Learning
By: Bernard Bull. Place-based education is an approach to teaching and learning even a single teacher in a traditional school can implement with a little creativity, preparation and persistence. Here are six helpful points to get started.
Guidelines for Assessment of Place-Based Learning
By: Gillian Judson. Assessment of learning is a complex and sensitive process, and in the context of place-based education it becomes even more challenging. Here are eight guidelines to help educators get started.
Developing a Sense of Place Means a Deeper Connection to Learning
By: Kristen Mueller-Sims. Developing a deep sense of place in young students leads to a citizenry that is more prepared and willing to contribute to communities for a lifetime.