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A Place-Based,
Service-Learning
Professional Development
Workshop Series
Connecting
Youth & Communities
Along the
Appalachian Trail
A Trail To EveryClassroom
Rediscover the outdoors and your sense o exploration
while learning eective, meaningul ways to lead your
students to their own discoveries o nature, physical chal-
lenges, and the distinctiveness o their own communities.
e signifcance o the Appalachian Trail is not its length, but its story
o civic engagement in preserving a recreational, natural, cultural,
spiritual, and now, educational, resource or challenges and dreams.
rough this cumulative series o workshops, you will create your own
experiential learning curriculum based on state educational standards
that integrates hands-on study o Appalachian Trail resources in
your community and the opportunity or teacher and student networks
rom Georgia to Maine.
Research shows that place-based education and service-learning increases:
Student achievement
Community engagement
Environmentally responsible behavior
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David Soble, Children & Nature, Design Principles for Educators, 2008
It is our desire to bring the environment and the community into
the core o the curriculum. For too long, we eel, environmental education
had been like art, a tassel on the edge o the school abric, not the warp.
Our Objective is to make ecological literacy a serious part o the
school philosophy. rough grounding the curriculum in local places,we make learning more meaningul and we increase student
achievement e best curriculum serves as a bridge between
the inner and outer worlds, between play and work, between dreams and
reality. e best education system will shape adults who both
love the earth and are smart and competent.
e Trail to Every Classroom (TTEC) program is oered ree o chargeincluding all lodging, meals, and materials.
Presenters include national experts in Place-Based Education, Service-Learning and Curriculum Development.
You are expected to develop curriculum with an Appalachian Trail ocus.
Five graduate credits are optional and oered or a ee o $250.00through Lebanon Valley College. Credits awarded December 2010.
Support or your curriculum development and implementation throughan increasing network o educators, as well as A.T. and Trail management
partners.
Highlights
Physical Demands
Each workshop will
include a hike ranging
rom one to fve miles.
Oh come on, you can
do it!
We will provide sugges-
tions to get you started
hiking even beore the
workshops begin.
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Summer Institute
Brings all participants together
focusing on Place-Based Education,
Service-Learning, and curriculum
development
July 1923, 2010
National ConservationTraining Center
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
2010 Workshop Series Schedule
then
then 2nd Local Workshop
Focuses on curriculum implemen-
tation and sustainability
F
G e o rG i a / Te nne s s e e /
no rTh C a ro l i na
September 2425
Len Foote Hike InnAmicalola Falls State Park, Georgia
V i rG i ni a
October 1516
Wilderness Adventures,Eagle Landing
Fincastle, Virginia
Pe nns y l Va ni a / ne w J e rs e y /
w e s T V i rG i ni a
October 12
Kings Gap EnvironmentalEducation Center
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
C o nne C Ti C u T /
ma s s a C h u s e TTs /V e rmo nT /
ne w h a mPs h i re / ma i ne
October 2930
Marsh Billings RockefellerNational Historical Park
Woodstock, Vermont
1st Local Workshop
Introduces teams of teachers to
the Trail and its resources locally
S
G e o rG i a / Te nne s s e e /
no rTh C a ro l i na
April 30May 1
USFS Unicoi Work CenterErwin, Tennessee
V i rG i ni a
May 78
Mountain Lake ResortBlacksburg, Virginia
PennsylVania / new Jersey /
w e s T V i rG i ni a
May 78
AMC Mohican CenterDelaware Water Gap,
New Jersey
C o nne C Ti C u T /
ma s s a C h u s e TTs /V e rmo nT /
ne w h a mPs h i re / ma i ne
May 1415
AMC Highland CenterCrawford Notch, New Hampshire
Center for Place-Based Learning & Civic Engagement
Aliated A.T. Trail Clubs
White Mountain National Forest
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
Lebanon Valley College
REI
Leki
Virginia Environmental Endowment
American Honda Foundation
P & S
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A n F
A Trail To EveryClassroom
Name _______________________________________________________
Position _____________________________________________________
School ______________________________________________________
District _____________________________________________________
Teammates also applying _______________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Administrators name __________________________________________
Preerred mailing address _______________________________________
Town _________________________ State _______ ZIP ____________
School telephone _____________________________________________
Home telephone ______________________________________________
School e-mail_________________________________________________
Home e-mail _________________________________________________
Please provide a letter o support rom your administrator as part
o this application expressing commitment and support or your
participation and respond to the ollowing questions on a
separate page:
1. How does your school currently incorporate place-based education
and service-learning in curriculum?
2. Please describe what you hope to gain proessionally and personally
by participating in TTEC.
Teams o two or more rom each
school are encouraged to apply.
Individuals also welcome.
You should be willing to:
Come with the strong supporto your administrator recognizing
two days away rom school
Participate in ALL workshops
and summer session Be willing to hike up to fve miles
in one day
Develop Trail-based curriculmunit which utilizes the local
landscape and meets the goals
o your school and grade level
expectations, exempliying
the best practices o Place-Based
Education and Service Learning
Provide written documentationo your curriculum or possible
inclusion in a model program
to be disseminated nationally
Participate in programevaluations
Return your completed
application, including letter
o support by:
March 5, 2010To: Rita Hennessy
National Park Service
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
P.O. Box 50
Harpers Ferry, WV 25425
Oce: (304) 535-6170
Fax: (304) 535-6270
e workshop series is oered ree o charge
including ood, lodging, and materials.
Participants are responsible or travel and
the cost o graduate credit.
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