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 ...

Situated in a meeting room overlooking the Mississippi River, six project directors and their evaluators gathered at the Tulane River and Coastal Center in New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the first ...

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 ...

“The goal of these grants is to empower young learners through place-based education, an interdisciplinary, student-centered, inquiry-driven teaching and learning practice situated in the local ...

Fort Lewis College launched its “Educators on the Water” program this summer as a way to help teachers develop experiential and place-based learning curriculum. The “Educators on the Water” program ...

Back in college, a professor once pulled me aside and threatened to flunk me if I missed one more class, despite the fact that I was doing OK on his exams.