One of our wonderful UVTPC partners, Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center, is hiring an Education Lead to help connect learners of all ages with farming, ecology, food, and the natural world! Located in East Thetford, VT, Cedar Circle provides hands-on, place-based ecology education that helps children and adults deepen their connections to the land, local food systems, and their community. The Education Lead will help develop and facilitate field trips, homeschool programs,

On November 6, educators, community partners, and organizations from across the Upper Valley gathered at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont, for the 2026 Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative (UVTPC) Conference, a day filled with connection, collaboration, and inspiration! This year's theme, "Flourish Together: Well-being, Belonging, and Learning for a Changing World," invited participants to explore how place-based education can nurture connections to ourselves, one a

Do you love bringing people together, building connections, and helping great ideas take root? The Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative (UVTPC) is looking for a creative, organized, and community-minded individual to join our team as a part-time Community & Program Coordinator! UVTPC connects educators, schools, and community organizations across the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire to support place-based and environmental education. We're looking for someone wh

Students across Vermont and New Hampshire are taking action to create more sustainable schools and communities through the 2026–27 ECAP School Grant Program! With generous support from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Wellborn Ecology Fund, the Equitable Climate Action Program (ECAP) has awarded $19,400 in grants to five schools to support student-led, place-based climate stewardship projects. From composting and waste reduction to energy conservation, outdoor learni

Students in Woodstock, VT restore trails on Mt Peg! Watch the video: https://youtu.be/oTmr1i3kwKQ Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/our-place-worth-protecting-how-three-grades-learned-to-care-for-the-hill-they-love Want to learn more or get support? Chat with Jacqueline Thomson: jacquelyn.thomason@mtnviews.org Get support from Alyssa Castellini at Mountain Views Supervisory Union: alyssa.castellini@mtnviews.org

Freshmen from the Hanover High environmental club organized a school trash day and a successful clothing swap! Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Bf7jHVjJNt8 Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/it-s-just-kind-of-sickening-hanover-high-students-turn-fast-fashion-facts-into-a-clothing-swap Want to learn more or get support? Chat with Deb Robinson: deborahrobinson@hanovernorwichschools.org

Tiffany Bates’s 3rd graders turned their trout in the classroom unit into a year long study Vermont’s history and future. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/uOgc2gS8sQk Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/it-started-with-trout-how-one-vermont-classroom-traced-a-year-back-to-the-land Want to learn more or get support? Chat with Tiffany Bates: tbates@wrvsu.org Get support from White River Partnership: info@whiteriverpartnership.org

Sandy Bailey’s preschools build environmental stewardship habits! Watch the video: https://youtube.com/shorts/GtDYSYBGgb4?feature=share Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/a-year-of-soil-and-song-how-twelve-preschoolers-became-small-stewards-of-the-earth Want to learn more or get support? Chat with Sandy Bailey: Sandy.BaileyVT@gmail.com

Kindergarteners and 5th graders in Hanover, NH build a compost program that hopes to spread to the whole district. Watch the Video: https://youtu.be/7APIay7l7rY Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/closing-the-loop-what-our-team-did-when-we-found-out-where-our-compost-really-went Chat with Leslie Connolly: leslie.connolly@rayschool.org Get support from catduffybuxton@gmail.com at the Upper Valley Super Compost Project

Seniors in the CRAFT Immersion Semester in Woodstock, VT built a perma-culture design for a nearby farm. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/V32PjOgNuc8 Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/seeding-the-future-our-seniors-designed-a-place-they-d-graduate-before-using Want to learn more or get support? Chat with Janis Boulbol and Abbie Castriotta at Woodstock Middle/High School Check out the CRAFT program.

Fifth graders at Marion Cross don't just run a school-wide composting program, but scientific studies about it. Watch the video:https://youtu.be/yWRn5a1d6IQ Read the blog post for more project details: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/more-of-a-science-than-you-would-think-what-our-fifth-graders-found-when-they-weighed-the-lunch-tra Chat with Devin Burkhart or Chrissy Morley at Marion Cross School Get support from catduffybuxton@gmail.com at the Upper Valley Super Compost Project

Kindergarteners at Cornish Elementary learn to like new foods and picking up trash. 🎥 Watch the video: https://youtube.com/shorts/eKDF_voydMM 📖 Read the Blogpost: https://www.uvtpc.com/post/take-a-little-give-a-lot-a-kindergarten-year-in-the-garden-and-along-the-road Want to learn more or get support? Chat with Lauren Edward at Cornish Elementary School

Mike Loots’s middle schoolers do three awesome action projects about food systems! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Mike: mike.loots@mtnviews.org 🌱Karen at RegenerationCorps: karen.nrcd@gmail.com

Lauren Edward's kindergartners learn about cycles, worms, compost, and plants all year long! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support?💬 Lauren: lauren.edward@sau100.nh.gov🌱 Karen at RegenerationCorps: karen.nrcd@gmail.com

Brooke Piana’s advanced art students turn climate anxiety into climate agency! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Brooke: brooke.piana@mtnviews.org 🦞🌊 Rudi at White River Partnership: rudi@whiteriverpartnership.org

Alyssa Castellini’s fifth graders learned tons about climate science by asking good questions! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Alyssa: Acastellini@wrvsu.org 🦞🌊 Rudi at White River Partnership: rudi@whiteriverpartnership.org

Kindergartners from Ray School built incredible troll sculptures from up cycled materials science project! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Chat with any of the teachers: leslie.connolly@rayschool.org, michelle.landry@rayschool.org, angelahotvet@hanovernorwichschools.org, or Sdoiron48@gmail.com

Janis Boulbol’s students repair a stretch of flood damaged river on their school campus! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Janis: janis.boulbol@mtnviews.org 🌱 Karen at RegenerationCorps: karen.nrcd@gmail.com ​

Leslie Connolly's kindergartners turned their passion for Red Efts into a citizen science project! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Leslie: leslieconnolly@hanovernorwichschool.org 🦉Hannah at VINS: hgelroth@vinsweb.org 🌲Jennie at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park: jennie_friedman@nps.gov

Devin Burkhart’s sixth graders became compost super heroes! 📽️ Watch the Video ​ 📖 Read the Blog post for project details Want to learn more or get support? 💬 Andy: andy.wood@mtnviews.org