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PBL Path offers One to Three-Day Workshops on the design principles of Place Based Learning and Project Design. We offer Professional Development Opportunities (1-3 Day Workshops) to provide ongoing support and growth in PBL implementation, as well as On-Site and Virtual Coaching to sustain PBL implementation. PBL Path also offers the service of Curriculum Development in the creation of projects aligned with the Design Principles. Foundations of Place-Based Learning (1-3 days, depending on implementation objectives)
Ever wonder how your students, collaborating with local experts and community partners, can determine what matters in your community, and shape a transformative, student-centered, standards-aligned project ? This workshop shares a planning process for how your school or classroom can take an idea and turn it into an authentic project with high impact for your community by applying the design principles of Place-based Learning. We’ll demystify the process of aligning projects to learning standards and Indigenous and cultural ways of knowing. We’ll share examples that illuminate how relevant Place-based Learning provides an engaging instructional approach for building leadership, critical thinking, creativity, communication and social entrepreneurship skills in students. This hands-on workshop takes you through the planning process resulting in the development of a community-centered, standards based, student directed project that honors and integrates inquiry, culture and community, producing tangible results for student learning and the community.
Liberate Teaching Practices and Decolonize Curricula: A Place-Based Learning Workshop
Day 1 Foundations of Liberation and Decolonization
Day 2 Place-Based Learning as a Tool for Decolonization Day 3 Implementation and Sustainability Join us for a groundbreaking 3-day workshop that empowers educators to liberate teaching practices and decolonize curricula through the lens of place-based learning. This transformative experience aims to inspire a shift towards inclusive, culturally responsive education, fostering an environment where diverse voices and perspectives are not just acknowledged but celebrated. By the workshop's conclusion, educators will possess a comprehensive toolkit, including practical strategies and project lesson plans, empowering them to liberate their teaching practices and embark on a journey of decolonizing curricula within their educational settings. Unpack Biases and Assumptions and Uncover Community Assets (1 day)
In this workshop we ask you to examine how, in what ways, and for what purpose you partner with the community. You will use PbLPath’s Project Planning Tool to interact with the Community Asset Map, discovering all of the ways we enter into relationships with our students, their families and with community partners. Doing both the inner work of uncovering biases, unpacking assumptions and putting them under the microscope of historical context secures a stronger place-based design. This workshop will ask you to tune in - to your schema, views and assumptions - in service of students, their families and the community.
The deliverable for this workshop is a Community Asset Map. The Power of Place-Based Learning in Higher Ed (1-3 days, depending on implementation objectives)
This workshop explores how Place-based Learning can increase student retention and early and ongoing success in college by designing coursework that relates directly to the world they live in. We will guide participants through a planning process to design effective Place-based Learning coursework aligned with your learning outcomes. We will share examples of how PbL provides opportunities for students to develop communication, collaboration, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, design thinking and social entrepreneur skills. Research at the university and college level indicates that students are more engaged and create higher quality work when they collaborate with community partners. Also, discipline specific community partners help students build their networks in their course of study, as well as providing authentic feedback on the products they produce. We will explore strategies for designing and implementing client and community based projects where the learning outcomes are dependent on meeting a community or stakeholder’s needs.
The workshop culminates with each participant or team creating a course outline and draft syllabus around a project idea. PbL for Leaders - Supporting and Sustaining (2 days)
Day 1 Co-creating the vision with intentional alignment
Day 2 Building the work plan, partnerships, and sharing with stakeholders The leadership workshop immerses instructional leaders in the cultural shifts, structural necessities and teaching and learning nuances unique to a school that is exploring Place-based Learning as the primary pedagogy. We’ll explore the answers to questions such as: “What is our vision for PbL at our school? How do we monitor and assess the efficacy of PbL and build capacity to carry forward the work of growing PbL on a campus? How does PbL align to current initiatives? How do we dismantle barriers to equitable PbL? How do we introduce PbL to our students and families? How do we leverage and sustain community partnerships?” Having the experience of starting several PbL schools, working on district-wide PbL initiatives and converting schools to PbL, the PbL Path team will guide leadership through the process with consideration for your unique circumstances and a collaborative mindset. |
All sessions are customized to meet the unique needs of participants, the community and the cultural context. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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Professional Development Opportunities (1-3 Day Workshops, click below for description)
Support for Implementation of Place Based Learning
⊞ Performance Assessment Pathways (1 day)
When students are immersed in place based projects, the products and services they create to demonstrate understanding are far more authentic, yet how do we assess this authentic learning? This session will unpack how to build an assessment plan and create tools that are standards aligned, student and community partner-friendly and targeted for growth and reflection. This workshop aligns with the Project Planner.
⊞ Unveiling the Tapestry: A 3-Day Community Story Mapping Workshop in Place-Based Learning
Day 1 Discovering Local Narratives Day 2 Crafting the Narrative Tapestry Day 3 Bringing Stories to Life Immerse yourself in a transformative 3-day workshop that delves deep into the art of community story mapping within the realm of place-based learning. This experiential journey empowers educators to explore the narratives embedded in their local environments, fostering a richer understanding of "place." By the end of the workshop, educators will have a comprehensive community story map ready for integration into their teaching practices, enriching their students' connection to local history, culture, and community.
⊞ Standards/Project Mapping (1-2 days)
Make the standards an asset to your teaching and your whole school community by building a blueprint for connected learning. Using Indigenous knowledge, the Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, National Council for the Social Studies Standards and cultural standards, we will build a year-long, integrated map that is iterative, trans-disciplinary, responsive to your students’ needs and clustered for place-based opportunities. Participants will construct a visual representation of their big picture planning and share it with at least one critical stakeholder at the end of the workshop.
⊞ Building Community Partnerships/Story Mapping (1-2 days)
In this session, we apply the process of story mapping as outlined in our book. We use the process of community story mapping to uncover the stories (past and present) and the hidden assets of the community. This process identifies areas to align projects with authentic community needs and issues and builds bridges to strengthen and sustain community partnerships.
⊞ Using Story to Create a Transformative Culture for Learning (1 day)
A transformative school culture is not only characterized by close relationships among the adults in the building, they also feature close connections to the students, families and the surrounding community. In this session, we will identify and build on assets of the staff, students, families and community members through storytelling. We will explore strategies to build a culture that encourages a growth mindset among all. You will be guided through a process to create a plan for transforming your school culture in support of Place-based Learning.
⊞ Pathways to College and Career
It is estimated that 30 percent of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions today are low income, first-generation college students. However, 89% of these students will not earn a bachelor's degree six years out from high school. In this session, we will explore how Place-based Learning, and other effective strategies, positively influences the early college preparation of first-generation college students by increasing self-efficacy, motivation and self-management skills related to college preparedness. This session targets ways to surround students with community support and strengthen the high school academic program using Place-based Learning. We will explore effective ways to build partnerships with local community colleges and universities to support first-generation college students. We will pull on the work we did with Arizona State University and high schools in the Phoenix area, Suquamish Tribe and Olympic College, and the Jemez Pueblo and University of New Mexico. The coursework is designed to increase college access to all Black and Brown students.
⊞ Leveraging Historical Sites and Museums for Designing Powerful Place Based Learning Projects (1-2 days)
Day 1 Site Expedition & Design Principles Day 2 Project Ideation & Sketch Historical sites and museums provide powerful partnerships to design and implement robust, engaging, and relevant projects. These sites provide a historical context that connects youth to their community and brings history alive as a way to unpack historical injustices. In this workshop we will explore the design principles of Place Based Learning and discover how you and your students can leverage historical sites and museums in the design of projects. Based on our many successful partnerships (most recently with the Whitney Plantation), we will discuss strategies for creating partnerships and designing expeditions at sites in your community. We will explore powerful community products students can create, aligned to standards and in service of their community. On Site and Virtual Coaching Support
Sustain Implementation of Place Based Learning Provide on-going coaching support for administrators, coaches, teachers and community partners to support and sustain Place Based Learning. Support is contextualized to the needs of our clients.
Curriculum Development
Align Curriculum and Resources to Place Based Learning PBL Path can assist your school in the development of community-centered, culturally embedded projects aligned to standards.
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