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Bridging Vision
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•Educating for Sustainability
•Discovering Community
•Of Place and Education
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•Intergenerational Media Collaboration in Kentucky at Appalshop
•Encouraging a Culture of Interest in Others: American and Russian Children Connect
•Bridging Generations Through Photography
•Engaging High School Students in Primary Research
•A Literacy Project from Bulgaria
•Digging Deeper in Compton, California
•Community Day at the IT Academy
•Water Within Their World
•Chickens in the Classroom: A Lesson in Place
LITERACY CORNER
Home Sweet Homeplace
RESOURCES Six Inches to England: An Anthology of International Children’s Stories
FEATURED ESSAYS
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•Discovering Community
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•Gathering for Purpose
•Community Sustainability as a Campus-Wide Experience
•After the Bridge: A Visit to the Penn Center
•"We Glad Fa See Oonah"
•Nature Journals: An Enduring Marriage of Art & Literature
•Reading and Learning as a Community-Wide Initiative
•Inspiring New Teachers in Lousiana
•Half a World Away
LITERACY CORNER
•The Nature of Cities: Urban Roosts and Other Adventures
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• Touching the Heart of Place
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• Environmental and Multicultural Education: Bridging the Gap
• Learning to Read Nature's Book
• The Power of Art in the Preservation of Community
• Dear Pop: Building Community from an Empty Classroom
The Measure of Success FEATURED ESSAYS
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Evaluation as a Learning: Experience at Howard University; Intervening Evidence: Making the Case for Service-Learning; A Collaborative Enterprise:
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Pooling Knowledge in the Collaborative Spirit; Redeeming Place: A Letter from the Mississippi Delta; After the Asphalt: A San Francisco Alliance; A Fourth Grade Plants Hope in the Egyptian Desert; Learning through Collaboration: An Interview with Fern Tavalin; Portrait of a Rural Teacher; Getting Started with Primary Resources –WITH regular featured essays on “Educating for Sustainability,” "Discovering Community" and “Of Place And Education.”
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