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Encouraging Place-Based Learning
Documenting and Assessing Place-based Learning: Example Portfolios
To enhance and promote place-based learning, the Rural Trust set about the task
of creating tools and strategies capable of documenting and measuring the full
impact of learning that unfolds both inside and outside a school’s walls, and for using the evidence that these strategies yield to improve place-based learning efforts.
Read more about the Rural Trust Portfolio Assessment System
Be sure to check the events section for the latest place-based learning conferences and workshops.
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Appalachian Rural Education Network (AREN)
This organization fosters hands-on study of local issues, resources, and traditions across the curriculum. Its teachers and administrators are aligning innovative, community-based programs with state standards of learning.
Read more about this Featured Project
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"It's a great way to learn, because when you first learn to know yourself by learning about your own community, you can then learn anything. You can learn Shakespeare, you can learn world history...anything...because you know how to learn."
--- Orlando Castillo, High School Student, Edcouch, Texas
"Place-based" education is learning that is rooted in what is local -- the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place. The community provides the context for learning, student work focuses on community needs and interests, and community members serve as resources and partners in every aspect of teaching and learning. Together we have discovered that this local focus has the power to engage students academically, pairing real-world relevance with intellectual rigor, while promoting genuine citizenship and preparing people to respect and live well in any community they choose.
Place-based learning helps schools and communities get better together.
Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative
Communities Creating Connections
Llano Grande Center for Research and Development
East Feliciana Parish Schools
Pacific Coast Photo Project
Roger Tory Peterson Institute
School at the Center
Walden's Ridge Cluster
Yampa Valley Legacy Education Initiative
RESEARCH
Jan 04 - The Star with My Name: The Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative and the Impact of Place-Based Education on Native Student Achievement
Jan 04 - They Remember What They Touch... The Impact of Place-Based Learning in East Feliciana Parish
Aug 03 - Resource Center: Students Assume Critical Role as Community Historians
Jul 03 - Engaged Institutions: Impacting Vulnerable Youth Through Place-Based Learning
Feb 03 - Resource Center: Achieving Academic Goals Through Place-Based Learning
Oct 02 - Planning a Future Understanding of Mathematics Education in Rural Context (by Craig Howley)
Oct 02 - Research About Mathematics Achievement in the Rural Circumstance (by Craig Howley)
Aug 02 - Resource Center: Connecting Communities and Classrooms
Oct 01 - Rural Home Schooling and Place-Based Education (Rebecca Jaycox/ERIC Digest)
Dec 00 - Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Outdoor and Environmental Education Approaches (Woodhouse & Knapp/ERIC Digest)
Sep 03 - The Rural School and Community Trust Develops an Assessment System
for Place-Based Learning
Sep 03 - Principles of Place-Based Learning
Aug 03 - Place-Based Education: Students and Adults Working Together to Learn About and Strengthen Their Communities
Aug 03 - Montana Heritage Project Links 21 Rural Communities and Their Schools
Aug 03 - Common Ground: Folklore and Place-Based Education
Jun 03 - Children Express Their Own Sense of Place at Aztec Ruins National Monument
Jun 03 - Rural Trust Launches Next Phase of Portfolio-Based Assessment System
Jun 03 - "One Book, One Community" and a Rural Memoir Writing Project
Feb 03 - Achieving Academic Goals Through Place-Based Learning
Feb 03 - Place-Based Education:What Rural Schools Need to Stimulate Real Learning
Dec 02 - Place-Based Project Connects Rural Children in Tennessee and Bulgaria
Aug 02 - Connecting Communities and Classrooms
Aug 02 - Principles of Place-Based Education
Aug 02 - Community Collaboration for Place-Based Studies
Aug 02 - Field Reports: Community Collaboration for Place-Based Studies
Jun 02 - Learning and Living with Diversity in Schleicher County, Texas
Feb 02 - Chef Cooks Up a Community Development Harvest in Rural West Virginia
Feb 02 - A First Person Account of the Rural Trust's Education Renewal Zone Initiative in Missouri
Dec 01 - Standards and Testing: Where Does Place-Based Learning Fit In?
Oct 01 - Classroom Resource Offers Lesson Plans on Community Heritage
Aug 01 - Wetlands Estonoa Saved by Saint Paul Senior Ecology Class
Jun 01 - Arts Flourish on California's San Juan Ridge
Apr 01 - Students Map Resources of Robeson County, NC
Apr 01 - Educators Gather at Stewardship Institute to Share Ways of Assessing Place-Based Education
Feb 01 - Student Recording Projects Capture Rural Culture, History
Dec 00 - Making the Best Better: Developing a Portfolio-based Assessment System
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