Let’s Quest!
The weather is warming, the buds are bursting, and the calendar is turning to May — it’s time to go…
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A Fun, Outdoor, “Light Lift” Volunteer Opportunity
Wanted: People of all ages with a love of the outdoors. Share that love by volunteering as a Valley Quest…
Join us for Star Throwers: Student Service Learning and Activism in the Community Webinar
During October 2021, all students at The Prosper Valley School (TPVS) participated in a service-learning program called Star Throwers. Inspired…
2022 Mini-Grants Available for Outdoor and Farm To School Education
Thanks to the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Vital Communities is thrilled to offer two mini-grant opportunities…
Grants for Place-Based Education Projects
Educators, do you have an idea for a project that will connect students with the outdoors? The Upper Valley Teaching…
The Prosper School’s Star Throwers: Making a Difference
From October 12 – 14, all students at The Prosper Valley School (TPVS) participated in a service-learning program called Star…
The ‘Colors’ of Birding and Nature
Colors in birding likely bring to mind plumage. Color in the context of diversity, equity, and inclusion lends a different…
Thetford Academy Students to Design a New Quest
The quest was an interesting journey A means of finding things out Classmates, this town and myself All of these…
Enlarging Our Commitment to “Sense of Place”
As the poet and farmer Wendell Berry once wrote, “There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred…
Regional Collaboration for Sustainability via Place-Based Ecology Education: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of the Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative
Place-based Ecology Education (PBEE) has emerged as a compelling approach to achieving the sustainability goals of Environmental Education (EE), including…
Place-based education: A report from the place-based equation evaluation collaborative
Place-based education immerses students in local heritage, culture, ecology, landscapes, opportunities, and experiences as a foundation for the study of language arts,…
The Benefits of Environmental Education for K-12 Students
Experts at Stanford University systematically searched the academic literature and analyzed 119 peer-reviewed studies published over a 20-year period that measured…