West Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative

We connect students to their community using place-based education supports to help them discover, analyze, and solve problems and develop a sense of place.

Intended Outcomes of Service:

Teachers will learn the tenets of place-based education, implement the curriculum-embedded, place-based project within their classrooms, and learn strategies and techniques that support this learning.

Examples of Service:

• Teachers meeting with field coordinators to plan part of their project
• Teams of teachers engaged in regular school meetings to work on their place-based education plan
• School buildings engaging in place-based education leadership teams
• Teachers participate in summer institutes, dinner and dialogues, and carry out their projects which they celebrate at a youth symposium

Intended Audiences:

• Direct service to student or students
• Individual or group of classroom teachers (grade level, department, etc.)
• School building or district administrator
• School building leadership team

Delivery Methods:

• Facilitation of a meeting (more than 1 other person)
• Providing or leading training on a specific topic (conducting a workshop)
• Modeling instructional practices in the classroom
• Working directly with students (Instruction/Facilitation)
• Working directly with administrators or building leadership teams
• Being an attendee (content expert) at a meeting (not facilitating)
• Planning with a teacher(s) (1-1 or group)
• Analyzing data with a teacher(s) or leadership team (1-1 or group)
• Cognitive coaching (feedback)
• Advising/recommending a course of action
• Coordinating an event, activity, or collaboration

Networks Supported:

• WMGLSI - West Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative