Jen Frederick recalls that when she went back to teaching at Plainfield Elementary School after being home with her children for a number of years, “it was very important to me that I was carrying on the culture of place-based learning that had impacted my own children so profoundly.” “Students from Plainfield have always left Plainfield Elementary School with love and appreciation of nature and their environment. I know that as the middle school science teacher a lot of that responsibility...