What does PBE look like in action?

by Lisa Voelker | Feb 6, 2018 | Leadership Development, Place-Based Education, Readings, Teacher Toolkit

Place-based Education can be a complex process to dive into! Check out these videos to hear stories of schools, classrooms, students, and teachers in Southeast Michigan who are each engaging in PBE. The Spotlight on Stewards Project is a collaborative pilot program...

Place-Based Education — what is it all about?

by Lisa Voelker | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Font Page, Inquiry-Based Learning, Place-Based Education, Student Voice, Teacher Toolkit

Place-Based Education — broaden and deepen your knowledge of PBE by checking out the following websites. PBE may look different depending on where you live and attend school, but there are principles, ideas, and practices that connect PBE work across the...

Education as if the World Mattered: Belonging and Interdependence as Education’s Purpose

by Lisa Voelker | Aug 30, 2016 | Place-Based Education, Professional Development Materials, Uncategorized

Written by Bill Boyle and Ethan Lowenstein. Chet Bowers asks a question that we should all be considering, especially those of us who serve as educators: “How do we live more interdependent lives based on practices that are less dependent on a monetized world, that...

Sturgeon in a Changing Great Lakes

by Lisa Voelker | Aug 1, 2016 | Community History, Ecosystems / Biodiversity, Environmental Impact, Place-Based Education, Professional Development Materials, Readings

By Matt Siegfried Display image courtesy of Fresh Water and Marine Image Bank, University of Washington The sturgeon, or Na’me in Anishinaabemowin (the language of the many Great Lakes First Nations communities), is an ancient fish just emerging from danger of...

Community Forum

by Lisa Voelker | May 30, 2016 | Civic Action / Leadership, Community History, Ecosystems / Biodiversity, High School, Inquiry-Based Learning, Intergenerational Dialogue, Lower Elementary, Middle Grades, Place-Based Education, Upper Elementary

The annual Community Forum provides students and educators with the opportunity to share their work with SEMIS Coalition members in a professional conference setting with peers and community members sharing methods and project development.  This conference puts...

A Walk in the Park, Detroit Institute of Technology, SEMIS Coalition, We Are The Forest

by Lisa Voelker | May 29, 2016 | Ecosystems / Biodiversity, Environmental Inventory, High School, Inquiry-Based Learning, NGSS, Place-Based Education, Teacher Toolkit, Water Quality / Studies, Water quality testing

As a result of the Walk in the Park project, students have developed a sense of responsibility for nature in their community. Students have been able to use Rouge Park as a space to learn stewardship skills such as water quality monitoring, conducting environmental...