Place Network
What We Offer
As Place Network partners, schools and districts have the opportunity to engage in a multi-year place-based, professional development experience.
Professional
Learning
- Facilitated workshops for teachers (in-person/virtual), customized to align with your school’s priorities, and modeling the place-based education learning framework
- One-on-one coaching
- Strong, supportive relationships with teachers and school leaders
- Help for school leaders seeking to strengthen a school-wide culture that supports relationships and innovation
Connecting students, teachers, and schools to place and community
Instructional Materials
- Place-based instructional approaches to teach required and/or desired content
- Curated place-based activities, units, and projects in a searchable database
- Teacher-ready tools for facilitating inquiry, research about place, and community impact
Network Facilitation
- Quarterly Leadership Conversations, a Student Leadership Committee, and a vibrant online forum that connects all Place Network students, teachers, and school communities
- n annual in-person conference at the Jackson Campus of Teton Science Schools in Wyoming
- Program evaluation and reporting tied to Place Network outcomes
- positive, hopeful community
- Communication regarding Place Network successes designed to support coalition building and fundraising, if needed
School Level Support
Create, maintain, share, and coach teachers and school leaders to use:
- The Place-Based School Implementation Model and Learning Framework
- The Place Network School Leader and Community Foundational Supports Readiness Review
- Tools/strategies for building strong reciprocal relationships between the school and community
- Place-based school branding
Our
Services
Place Network
Tiers of Partnerships
Introduction Year
Quarterly Network leadership meetings, networking platform, online curriculum database.
Affiliate School
Introduction year, PLUS
Monthly partnership meetings with a Teton Science Schools coach, asynchronous onboarding modules for teachers.
Place Network Partner
Introduction year and Affiliate School, PLUS
Four days of in-person workshops OR virtual coaching package, all Teton Science Schools Professional Learning virtual workshops and courses, research opportunities, Canvas course for students, and more!
