Place-Based Learning
"If a child happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy, or plants, or birds, or rocks, or history, that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear. Then you have made your schoolroom like the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I had never known just how fantastic science could be...For me being in the field, mucking around in ponds, spending whole days outdoors and using all my senses to take in the knowledge that textbooks try to pound in with facts, was wonderful. For me there is no better way to introduce students to a subject than by literally making it real to them. Learning took on a whole new dimension for me."
- Ximena, 14, Wisconsin
"I had never known just how fantastic science could be...For me being in the field, mucking around in ponds, spending whole days outdoors and using all my senses to take in the knowledge that textbooks try to pound in with facts, was wonderful. For me there is no better way to introduce students to a subject than by literally making it real to them. Learning took on a whole new dimension for me."
- Ximena, 14, Wisconsin
Interdisciplinary Learning Collaborative
The Interdisciplinary Learning Collaborative is an innovative school design that replaces the traditional Carnegie course structure with interdisciplinary seminars, workshops, and symposiums that are responsive and responsible to the students' learning needs. An educator collaborative results in frequent team teaching, student project/capstone facilitation, and extensive community opportunities as students contribute to and benefit from the greater community.