Experience a week of deep learning, planning, and collaboration in The Institute's design lab atmosphere. Since 1995, our core experience Institutes on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability have provided a powerful learning and design lab for K-16 and community based educators from across the U.S. and beyond. Our participants come from K-16 schools, large and small, rural and urban, independent and public, and from environmental and community based organizations. learn more l naaee special rates l register

INSTITUTE OUTCOMES

• Learn powerful strategies for using the community as the classroom.
• Focus on students as active contributors to sustainable communities.
• Integrate student voice and agency, reciprocity, and reflection.
• Gain strategies for program growth, team building, and institutional buy in.
• Infuse project based learning with compelling public purpose and academic integrity.
• Design student learning around personal passion and interest.
• Use ethnography to dig into human connection, inclusion, and social justice.
• Connect social emotional learning goals.
• Inspire, recharge, and advance our collective vision and practice.