To fully prepare K-12 students for life and career, connect with your community!
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A successful community-based learning program is a triple wināfor students, schools, and the entire community. Curriculum becomes more meaningful and relevant, students are more engaged, and schools and districts benefit from new advocates.
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Authors Prast and Viegut show how to move beyond guest speakers and field trips to creating a vibrant program that promotes academic achievement and future career skills. In this second acclaimed book in The Clarity Series, readers will learn how to
- Forge rewarding partnerships with local partners, from major employers to small businesses and community groups
- Implement a high-quality, sustainable initiative that bridges disciplines
- Recognize and overcome barriers to effectiveness
- Apply best practices from today's most-effective programs
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Turn to this helpful guide to tap the limitless opportunities and potential offered by community-based learning.
"Community-based learning, as described in this series, just might be the missing piece we are looking for on our competency-based, personalized learning quest for our students. If we can bring this work togetherāif we can connect them to their passion (personalize), move them along when they are ready (competency-based) and ground them in real life experience (community-based), perhaps we can truly give them the roots and the wings we have only been theorizing about for fifty years."
āDr. Sandra Dop, Program Consultant
Iowa Department of Education
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