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Place-Based Learning
Connecting Inquiry, Community, and Culture
Empowering educators to cultivate student connections to place, culture, and community, this book provides tools and principles for teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls. Teachers can learn to enrich the traditional curricula with authentic, community-driven experiences that create student ownership.
Benefits
- Learn the seven place-based learning design principles and apply them.
- Understand what role maps and countermapping have in establishing a sense of place and how to map a community’s assets.
- Build meaningful community partnerships with students using collaborative projects.
- Empower students to confront inequitable societal structures.
- Reflect on key takeaways and consider chapter-ending questions to further a place-based learning practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Elevate Ways of Knowing
Chapter 2: Facilitate Purpose-Driven Inquiry
Chapter 3: Build Authentic Community Partnerships
Chapter 4: Empower Student Ownership
Chapter 5: Engage in Feedback, Revision, and Reflection
Chapter 6: Co-Create an Authentic Community Product
Chapter 7: Embed Culture in Teaching and Learning
Chapter 8: Use Liberatory Teaching Practices to Decolonize Curricula
Chapter 9: Unpack Biases and Assumptions and Uncover Community Assets
Chapter 10: Follow Pathways to Liberatory and Decolonized Assessment Practices
Chapter 11: Plan Place-Based Learning Projects
Chapter 12: Sustain Place-Based Learning Through the Practitioner’s Round
Chapter 13: Dismantle the Barriers to Place-Based Learning
Chapter 14: Monitor and Assess the Efficacy of Place-Based Learning and Build Capacity
Epilogue
Appendix
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
- Figure 10.2: At Standard Descriptor
- Figure 10.3: Skills Criteria
- Figure 10.4: Ancient Civilizations and Power Museum Rubric
- Figure 10.5: Ancient Civilizations and Power Museum Rubric—Museum Design and Layout
- Figure 10.7: Baton Rouge’s Troubled Waters Project Example—Liberatory Learning and Assessment Pathways
Chapter 11
- Figure 11.5: Capturing the Project Idea Sketch and Design Principles
- Figure 11.6: Example for Using the Quality Indicators
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Appendix
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Klein, J. D., & Ciotti, K. (2022). The landscape model of learning: Designing student-centered experiences for cognitive and cultural inclusion. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
- Interactive Map
- Landback
- Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
- Community Remembrance Project
- Community Mapping Lab: Linnentown
- Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
- Newsela
- CommonLit
- “Giving and Receiving Peer Feedback” lesson
- i2 Learning
- PBLWorks
- Feedback Carousel protocol
- A Mile in My Shoes Empathy Museum exhibit
- Ashoka
- Stories for Early Changemaking
- Educircles.org
- “8 Kids Making a Difference & Changing the World”
- SOLVE
- “Developing Community Agreements”
- ArcGIS
- Talent Enthusiasts
