For me, community-based learning is about finding your strengths and learning how you can help other people. By working with people in the community you are able to widen your circle of friends and connections. Whether it be through a local internship with a concert promoter or volunteering at a local elementary school, there is always something new to learn about your community. I have never had...
Posts From Practice
Tina Nilsen-Hodges March 21, 2018
Throughout the year, New Roots students joined staff and administrators in an initiative called “Teaching Our Cities.” Funded through a mini-grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, we were able to participate in a year-long collaboration between six urban environmental public schools throughout the Northeast to answer one driving question: “What if urban public schools embraced...
Jeff Johnson March 19, 2018
The Greene School's 12th grade learning expedition, “Our Place By The Sea,” is a year long multidisciplinary unit, through which students study Rhode Island’s historic lack of sustainability from an economic, environmental and social lens. Over the course of the year, students engage through these” three pillars of sustainability,” and through the multidisciplinary lenses offfered by their...