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For Educators
Climate Action
Education Impact

Oyster Reefs as a Climate Change Adaptation

This and other work from educators in our 2022–23 Climate Resiliency Fellowship.

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Education Impact
Farm-Based Education
Research

Enriching Lives: Animal and Human

UVM student and farmyard educator Catherine Ziac tackles the question of how animal enrichment might affect the welfare of our education animals and their human interactions.

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Education Impact
For Educators

A Campus for Learning, Winter 2023

Students, educators, and families are exploring our snow-covered campus for learning this winter—here are a few highlights from the past months.

Senator Patrick Leahy and Marcelle Pomerleau Leahy talk with Crossett Brook Middle School students during the Farm to School Project Share. Here they speak with students from the sustainability club and meet Molly the hen, part of the school's flock of chickens.
Education Impact
Farm to School

Our Thanks to Senator Leahy for his Decades-Long Support for Farm to School

Vermont's farm to school and early childhood community thanks the Senator for his support of our shared vision to connect classrooms, cafeterias, and communities.

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Meet our Summer Fellows: What They Learned

Four students from Middlebury College and the University of Vermont share reflections on what they learned from the immersive, place-based experience.

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Place-Based Education

New Experiences After School: Winooski’s JFK Elementary Explores Sustainability

This semester, students learned about their community through the lens of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, part of an ongoing partnership between Shelburne Farms and the Winooski School District.

Education Impact
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Place-Based Education

Sustainable Schools at Work: Field and Forest Program

Champlain Valley Union High School's Field and Forest program is an example of transformative learning in action.

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Hopeful Stories from Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability

Among this year’s Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability projects, you’ll find youth and educators striving to address some of our world’s biggest challenges.

Education Impact
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Place-Based Education

Sustainable Schools at Work: High School for Environmental Studies, NYC

The job of our high schools to prepare students to enter the world has never been more complex. Leaders of one of our longtime partner schools took an ambitious approach to the challenge, sparked by our professional learning programs.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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