No matter their subject, the finalists for the 2026 National Teacher of the Year make their communities central to their ...

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 ...

I wrote last week about the Rural Schools Partnership, which is an initiative dedicated in part to encouraging placed-based education. A recent article by the University of Virginia’s Amy Azano in the ...

WASHINGTON — The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today an award of $5.1 million dollars to fund 12 place-based education projects ...

Since its establishment in 2016, Teton Science School's Place-Based Symposium has evolved into an annual event through which educators and thought leaders from around the world exchange place-based ...

Urban communities are typically remarkably diverse in residents’ backgrounds, values, and views of the good life. The “community,” then, is held together by a staggering number of relationships, ...

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 ...

Introduction : Land education : Indigenous, post-colonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research / Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie and Kate McCoy -- Speaking back to ...

For too long, we’ve tried to solve deeply rooted social challenges with disconnected solutions, using one program for education, another for healthcare and a separate one for jobs. They often operate ...