Preparing Educators for the Place-Based Education Classroom
Industrialized education is dead. Young people absorbing content absent of context creates factory workers for the Industrial Age, not leaders for the 21st century. In the beginning, Teton Science Schools operated in the informal education sector by creating opportunities for high school students to learn through “doing science” on public lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. …
Diving into Place-Based Education: Design Thinking
The world faces design hurdles every single day. Whether it’s our most prestigious scientists and politicians understanding how our global economies can curb climate change, our local civil engineers figuring out how to design a new development in town or even our own school administrators dealing with challenging pick-up and drop-off processes, …
In Place-Based Classrooms, How Students Learn Science is Never the Same
Imagine this scenario. You’re a new middle school student, excited to dive into biology class for the first time. You arrive to class on the first day and receive your text book–the same text book that has been used in your elementary school classes for the last three years. …
The Language of Art and Materials in Reggio Emilia Classrooms
Ask a group of people to define the word “art” and you’re bound to receive a multitude of answers. For some it may render definitions alluding to finished products we’d see in a museum, …
AmeriCorps Alums Unpack the Myths of Jackson Hole in New Podcast
Long before Jesse Bryant and Hannah Habermann came together to create and launch their new podcast, “Yonder Lies: Unpacking the Myths of Jackson Hole,” they met as students on a course with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). …
This School is Putting Students at the Helm of Their Own Learning Environments
When Place Network partner, Mountain River School, started the 19-20 school year on a brand new campus, the teachers and administrators didn’t just see it as a fresh start in a new building, …
Learning Shouldn’t Stop in Summer: 6 Benefits of Summer Camp
Summer camp. It’s a time that many of us as adults look back on fondly. We remember the thrill of building a fire with flint and steel for the first time, or the carefree afternoons spent hiking or watercoloring under the sun. …
A Play Space for Students, by Students
Imagine this: you’re a student in elementary school (K-5) and one day, your teachers tell you that starting today, you and your classmates are going to dive into the exploration of PLAY. …
How a Wildlife Tour Showed Local Students their Place in a New Way
It’s not uncommon to live in a place and not experience everything it has to offer. For many, there are simply too many things to see and do in their place — …
A University Partnership Grounded in Place, Reflection and Technology
In 2015, Ohio University graduate and Wyoming resident Ralph Haberfeld had an epiphany that has connected two distinct, picturesque places: Athens, Ohio, in the Appalachian foothills, and Jackson Hole, bordering western Wyoming’s Teton Range.
Thanks to that epiphany, …
