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Education Impact
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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability

How do you galvanize teachers and students to address the most pressing sustainability issues of our time? To start, you get them all in one room. That's what we did on September 21 to launch of year of learning and change.

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Place-Based Education
Research

Educating for Sustainability: Case Studies from the Field

Discover some promising practices for how to educate for sustainability in our newly released ebook, with nine case studies and twelve contributing author educators.

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Sustainability’s Big Ideas Help Teachers Address Climate Change

What does instruction around the critical, yet sensitive issue of climate change look like? And what does "climate literacy" mean? Teachers at our Education for Sustainability Institute this past summer found out.

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Summer Camp for Educators

We welcomed educators from near and far this summer — from Texas to Quebec and Indiana to Hawaii — every one bringing their commitment to educating for a sustainable future.

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Place-Based Education

A Forest for Every Classroom

Find out how A Forest for Every Classroom (and upcoming program, A Watershed for Every Classroom), helps educators bring students outdoors for meaningful, place-based service-learning experiences.

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Restaurant to Cafeteria: Why I Became a School Food Chef

We asked seasonal inn chef James MacPherson why he chose to move from the restaurant world to the school cafeteria. He shared some pretty inspiring answers.

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Farm to School

Talking Farm to School on World Food Day, Milan, Italy

How is Vermont's Farm to School movement growing a more sustainable future? Our presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Food Education, EXPO Milan 2015.

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Nurturing the Whole Teacher

“…Inspirational, reflective, and restorative summer professional work is so essential to nurturing the whole teacher. “ Find out how Shelburne Farms serves that role for many educators practicing Education for Sustainability.

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Vermont Food Education Every Day (VT FEED) Expands Farm to School Institute Regionally

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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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