Planning Tools
Place-based education offers an ideal opportunity to develop strong, positive partnerships among community stakeholders – in fact, it can’t succeed without them. These partnerships can also help stakeholders build momentum to achieve their own respective missions. Launching a place-based education program in your school and community requires gradually building understanding, enthusiasm and commitment. We have found that a combination of engaging exercises and strong organization tools works best.
Here are some tools and exercises that may be helpful to you as you explore the opportunities to build support for place-based education initiatives in your community. (adapted from Questing by Delia Clark and Steven Glazer, University Press of New England, 2004, and the PLACE website.)
- Developing Place-Based Education Partnerships (PDF, 25K)
- Convivial Research (PDF, 79K)
- Sense of Place Map (PDF, 21K)
- Mapping Place-Based Educational Opportunities (PDF, 22K)
- Developing a Place-Based Education Project (PDF, 24K)
- Supporting Your Organizational Goals with Place-Based Education (PDF, 25K)
- Tips and Techniques for Reading the Landscape (PDF, 56K)