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Ag-Environmental Charter School Moves Forward in Small Wisconsin Community
4-H Project Model Used as Example to Make Concept Clear to Community
A project-based curriculum, similar to 4-H, with students working around the lake, in the school forest and on farms is at the heart of a proposed Wisconsin charter elementary school .
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Educating for Sustainability—Paradigm Changes Start in Classrooms
Graduate Program Makes the Big Ideas Relevant in Students’ Lives
Every teacher—in a public or private school—can help students see the larger connections among economics, the natural environment, social justice and their own community and family life. Yet it is important for educators to make these issues relevant without generating fearfulness or a sense of helplessness about the magnitude of the issues and problems. This balance is proving to be a challenge in contemporary classrooms.
Antioch University in New England is now offering the first graduate-level program specifically linking education and sustainability to help educators foster in children personal responsibility, optimism about the prospects for the future and the decision-making skills to balance public and private priorities in an interconnected world. The Antioch masters in education (M.Ed) concentration in Educating for Sustainability (EFS) includes a two-week summer residency with fall and spring online courses. The program focuses on the ways individual citizens, communities and societies learn how to meet their needs and aspirations without compromising future generations’ abilities to meet their needs.
