We are happy to have the opportunity to feature two strong voices in the place-based ecology education (PBEE) movement in the Upper...

School’s Out(doors): Place-based Education Responds to COVID-19 and Beyond was created by PEER Associates in collaboration...

A team of educators committed to providing Upper Valley students with the resources they need to thrive during COVID19 have successfully...

The world has changed drastically in the last two months. And many of us are re-thinking the way things worked prior to the COVID-19...

“It’s easier to understand the rest of the world if you really know where you are,” says Sophie Leggett. Although I moved here just a...

In its 12th year, the Four Winds Nature Institute – Upper Valley Linkages for Environmental Literacy (UVLEL) grant program is getting...

Jen Frederick recalls that when she went back to teaching at Plainfield Elementary School after being home with her children for a number...

“The logistics around getting our students to the forest once a week to learn are challenging,” says Jess Loeffler, “but so worth it.”...

You may remember the story of violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, performing Bach and Schubert on a million dollar violin in a Washington DC...

“I am working with a sophomore right now who is struggling at school, and I had yet to hear him say more than a few words in our class,”...

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is announcing $289,435 in grant awards from its Wellborn Ecology Fund. The grant dollars will...

For the last school year, 3rdgraders at the Lyme School and the Sharon Elementary School have been writing to one another in a pen pal...

Both Shawn Brodeur-Stevens and Mary Lord have been teaching at Charlestown Middle School for over 20 years. Yet they have the energy most...

Scott Ellis has infectious enthusiasm for getting outside to learn and explore in nature. He taught at the Cardigan Mt. School in Canaan,...

The Best Day Ever - Forest Kindergarten in NH & VT.

When Nikki Raney thinks about what skills she wants her third-graders at the Dothan Brook School to have when they grow up, she says...

Leslie Connolly and Jackie Atherley are a dynamic duo. Working together at Hanover’s Bernice A. Ray School, the two are embarking on an...

For Beth Ann Drinker, learning to trust herself was one of the most important challenges in taking her students outdoors. “I’ve taught...

Lyme School 3rd grade teacher, Trisha Gautreau caught the PBEE bug 5 years ago when she took a nature writing course for professional...

This year Sharon Elementary School 4th and 6th grade teachers, Meg Hopkins and Janis Boulbol, piloted a program called A Week in the...