Principal restores stream, saves school, revives town
Connecting school with nature and town has big results By Hanna Wheeler In her desk’s side drawer, Principal Dana McCauley keeps a pair of sneakers, an old tee-shirt and jeans. She has to be prepared. At any point in the day, she might be wading in the stream, weeding the butterfly garden or banding birds [...]
The power of a question: Whole Terrain interviews educator, Laurette Rogers
By Hanna Wheeler It started with a question. One of Laurette Rogers’s fourth-graders asked how they could save endangered species. Rogers knew she needed a real answer, so she and her students started researching. They teamed up with ranchers, biologists and government agency representatives to launch a meaningful project: restoring habitat for the nearby, endangered [...]
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Into the woods: Whole Terrain interviews David Sobel
By Hanna Wheeler David Sobel keeps a thick folder of inspirational projects in place in schools around the country. As an educational writer, Senior faculty in the Antioch University New England Education Department and director for the Center for Place-based Eduction, Sobel is regularly asked to describe the state of place-based education. The folder is [...]
