Links and Citations

School-Community Partnerships and Collaboration

• Rural School and Community Trust (2003). Connecting School and Community: A Facilitator’s Guide. Washington, DC: Rural School and Community Trust
• Adam Kahane & Peter Senge. (2004). Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
• Peter M. Senge, et.al. (2005). Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
• Peter Senge (2006). The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
• Adam Kahane & Zaid Hassan (2005). The U Process: A Social Technology for Addressing Highly Complex Challenges.
• Rural School and Community Trust (2002). Portfolio Based Assessment System. Washington, DC: Rural School and Community Trust

Place-Based Education

• Creating Stewards of the Great Lakes
  www.glft.org/resourcelibrary/PBEFinalReport.pdf
  This report reviews the literature about place-based education and explains the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative’s integrated model, which incorporates place-based education, sustained professional development for teachers, and school-community partnerships.
• Going Local and Place-based Education: Learning to Be Where We Are
  These two papers are by Dr. Greg Smith (Lewis & Clark College), a leader in place-based education. Each provides an overview and vibrant examples of the fundamentals and outcomes of place-based education.
• Promise of Place 
  www.promiseofplace.org
  This site has a comprehensive list of resources about place-based education, including scholarly publications, curriculum documents, results of evaluation, links to organizations, FAQs, and a very useful section called “Obstacles/Solutions.”
• Rural School and Community Trust
  http://www.ruraledu.org/articles.php?tag=708
  The Trust focuses on partnerships among schools and communities, and supports place-based education as an effective strategy to accomplish its mission. The Trust makes many tools available on-line—from portfolios resulting from place-based education projects to rubrics that help people assess their progress. Doris Williams serves as a national advisor to the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative.
• Center for Place-based Education, Antioch New England Institute
  www.anei.org/pages/89_cpbe.cfm
  This site describes the Center’s programs and also has links to general information about place-based education and service learning. David Sobel serves as a national advisor to the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative.
• Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources
  ww.ncsr.org
  NCSR is a national clearinghouse for natural resource curriculum materials used by college faculty and high school teachers. The Community-based Secondary Education Guides are excellent resources for teachers. Jon Yoder serves as a national advisor to the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative.
• Place-Based Education Evaluation Collaborative
  www.peecworks.org/index
  PEEC focuses on the evaluation of place-based education.  The site has general information about evaluation and provides links to place-based education resources and organizations.
• Student Gains from Place-Based Education
  University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
  www.cudenver.edu/cye
  Fact sheet #2, November 2007 (PDF)

Professional Development for Teachers

• Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
• The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement (2006). Redefining Professional Development: Schools Can Become True Learning Communities for Teachers. Retrieved February,2007 from http://www.centerforcsri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=280&Itemid=5
• Guskey, Thomas R. (2003). Analyzing Lists of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development to Promote Visionary Leadership. Retrieved July 9, 2008, from http://bul.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/87/637/4
• The Knowledge Loom and Professional Development. (n.d.). Retrieved February 21, 2006, from http://knowledgeloom.org/guidebook/pd.jsp
• The Knowledge Loom In the Spotlight: Professional Development. (n.d.). Retrieved February 7, 2006, from
  http://knowledgeloom.org/pd/index.jsp
• Loucks-Horsley, S., Hewson, P. W., Love, N., & Stiles, K. E. (1998). Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.
• National Research Council. (1996). National Science Education Standards. Washington, D.C.: Author.
• National Research Council. (2000). Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A guide for teaching and learning. Washington, DC:NRC.
• Public Schools of North Carolina—Professional Development. (n.d.). Retrieved April 16, 2007, from
  http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/guidelines/ncguidelines/
• Watkins Jr., Thomas D. (2003). Approval of the Update of Professional Development Vision and Standards for Michigan Educators. Retrieved September 4, 2003, from
  http://www.michigan.gov/documents/ProfDevStdsVISWStrategies_4_9_03_C61067__A62638_12_09_02_62686_7.pdf
• Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.