by Kara Scherer I feel like a bit of a hypocrite when I ask people what they think the most important aspect of place is, because I’m not really sure what it is myself. That’s what’s so fascinating to me. My perception of place is still changing as I learn and think more about it. […]
Experiencing, Learning, and Teaching PBE
By Kara Scherer As we huddled together as a group, Eric taught Colette and I about convection currents as the fog rolled in from the vast blue Pacific and over the surrounding hills. The wind made the native plants around us dance, while the trees gently swayed above us. As Eric finished his explanation, Colette […]
My Place-Based Learning Experiences
What experiences have you had with PBE? by Delia Russo-Savage I am from Montpelier, Vermont. Although Montpelier is the capital of Vermont, it is a small town with a tight-knit community. The public school system and the community I grew up in was always incredibly focused on providing opportunities to students for alternative learning. From […]
The Forest Wax Project: In Memoriam
By Jess Kostka This reflection helped me think about how place-based education can be incorporated into an English classroom. It also made me think of aspects of my small, rural community that can be incorporated into the classroom – both geographical aspects of the landscape that are obvious to outsiders and events that are nearly […]
Seventeen Years in the Shadow of the Mountains
by Jess Kostka This reflection was inspired by the activities in the place-based education manual “Learning to Make Choices for the Future” by Delia Clark. I wrote this reflection because I wanted to reconnect to my hometown and begin thinking about how I view where I come from. Establishing myself there helped me think both […]
Place in Montpelier, VT
By Delia Russo-Savage Place is such an incredibly complex idea that it is hard for me to even begin to describe. When I hear the word place, an array of images and words come to mind, some that overlap and some that have nothing at all to do with one another. I think of mountains, […]