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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

Rita_Hennessy@nps.gov

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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