Chapter 9 - Strategies

Build connections through community

To provide vision and guidance

Nurture community exchange

To plant seeds and trees within your community

Discourage students from forming community and getting outside

Help students understand what they are learning

Help encourage community relationships, environmental knowledge, and place-based importance in education.

To touch dirt

Gives students an understanding of why they should help their community

Teaches students to collaborate with each other and the community

It makes their learning worse

Helps them connect with their local environment and community

Teachers, community members, and students

Only community members

Parents and Teachers

School administrators and teachers

Individual assignments

Group projects with local the local community and outdoors

Solo research papers

Online discussion boards

Giving everyone a say in education will create competition in the classroom

Giving everyone a say in education will help them feel like they play an important role

Giving everyone a say in education will help them feel useless

Giving everyone a say in education will make students feel more powerful than the teacher

teachers to students

School admin to teachers

People to people

Community members to students