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Welcome! PEEC is a partnership between the organizations and projects described below. By combining efforts, the collaborative is able to support program evaluation for each of the individual programs and also to better identify successful program characteristics that span all of these place-based education programs.
To learn more about PEEC, please explore the following links:
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The links immediately below take you to additional resources this collaborative has gathered to share with anyone interested in place-based education.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have suggestions for resources that should be on this list, please send them by email to info "@" PEERassociates.net
The Upper Valley Region of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the fiscal agent and umbrella organization for PEEC. The work of PEEC is supported by funding from The Wellborn Ecology Fund, a special endowment devoted to supporting environmental and ecology education in the Upper Valley region. The knowledge and information developed through PEEC will be shared with Wellborn grantees and other organizations providing place-based and ecology education throughout the Upper Valley and beyond.
A Forest For Every Classroom (FFEC) is a professional development program for educators focused on place-based education. FFEC is a unique partnership of public and private organizations that includes Shelburne Farms, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Green Mountain National Forest, the Northeast Office of the National Wildlife Federation, the Conservation Study Institute, and the Northern Forest Center. Teachers who participate in FFEC develop curriculum that foster student understanding of and appreciation for the public lands in their communities.
The Sustainable Schools Project has emerged out of the Education for Sustainability initiative in Vermont which has provided professional development training for more than 30 schools in Vermont. The project also successfully added sustainability and sense of place standards to Vermont’s Curriculum Frameworks. The Sustainable Schools project focuses on the integration of the concept of sustainability into one large, urban elementary school in Burlington, VT during the current year.
The CO-SEED Project of Antioch New England Institute at Antioch New England Graduate School has been working collaboratively with a dozen schools and community learning learning centers and a diverse array of rural and urban New England communities since 1999. CO-SEED aspires to creating a synergistic relationship between school improvement, community development and the preservation of environmental quality. This requires extensive collaborative engagement of town officials, teachers, administrators, scientists, community officials and environmental educators.
The Trail to Every Classroom (TTEC) project is a collaborative effort between the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), the National Park Service, and the founding partners of the Forest for Every Classroom (FFEC) program in Vermont. This service-learning and place-based education program uses the Appalachian Trail (AT) as the main focus for connecting teachers with local resource specialists to create curricula and projects that connect students to the AT.
The Litzsinger Road Ecology Center (LREC) is an established educational site under the management of the Missouri Botanical Garden that includes land and facilities dedicated to promoting science teaching and learning, environmental literacy, and stewardship of the Earth. While located in the heart of the St. Louis metropolitan area, just 10 miles west of downtown St. Louis, this unique 34-acre study center encompasses a rich variety of habitats including bottomland forest, restored prairie, and an urban creek. In addition, classrooms and an on-site computer laboratory offer research and instructional experiences that increase the scope of learning for students and
teachers.
The Community Mapping Project (CMaP) was a founding member of PEEC and participated formally through 2005. CMaP grew from a partnership between the Orton Family Foundation and the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, and is now a program of the Institute for Technology Development. CMaP supports youth, educators and community partners in a process of discovery and learning about their community and its resources. Together they tackle authentic issues using hands-on resources and mapping technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS) and satellite imagery to actively investigate social, economic and ecological systems, identify and solve local problems and develop enduring connections.
PEER Associates, Inc. is the outside evaluation consulting firm that conducts most of the evaluation and research for PEEC.
PromiseOfPlace.org is a user-friendly web portal to the most useful place-based education resources collected by PEEC and PEER.
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