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For Educators
Climate Action
Place-Based Education

A Watershed for Every Classroom Returns

The transformational professional learning program will welcome a new group of educators in 2024.

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Education Impact
Place-Based Education

What Our 2023 Summer Fellows Learned

This past summer, Shelburne Farms welcomed four fellows—college students from nearby Middlebury College and the University of Vermont—to our campus for learning. Here, 2023 fellows share their reflections on this experience.

 

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Education Impact
Place-Based Education

Education for Sustainability Highlighted on "Across the Fence"

Teacher Julie Norman and Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools' Aimee Arandia Østensen talk about the possibilities of education for sustainability with Across the Fence.

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For Educators
Education Impact
Place-Based Education

Leading in Schools, With Lessons from the Land

A snapshot of our 2022–23 Leadership Academy.

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Place-Based Education
Research

Hawai'i and Vermont, Place-Based Partners

Educators, including Shelburne Farms staff, from these two very different places are, in fact, partners in place-based research and shared learning.

Education Impact
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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.

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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Justice
Place-Based Education

Two Paths, One Like Mind: Unsettling Place-Based Education

The centuries-old idea of walking two paths with one like mind is a concept that can help inform our work as place-based educators today.

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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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