2010: Reading, Writing & Thinking
the Hudson Valley
July 27-29
FDR Home & Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY
Placed-Based Education Pioneer David Sobel To Keynote Summer Institute
Area educators are invited to discover new ways to use the region’s special places to teach all disciplines and grade levels at Reading, Writing, & Thinking the Hudson Valley. Registration is open for the 8th annual summer institute to be held July 27-29 at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home and Presidential Library in Hyde Park. The program is organized by Teaching the Hudson Valley (THV).
More than 20 workshops will connect educators with artists, historians, writers, and scientists, as well as their colleagues from schools, parks, and historic sites throughout the Valley. On Day 2 participants will choose one of five off-site experiences.
This year’s keynote address, “PLACE-BASED EDUCATION: Making School More Like A Farmer’s Market,” will be delivered by David Sobel , co-director of the Center for Place-Based Education, Antioch University New England. “Teaching doesn’t have to be limited by textbooks that crowd out real-life experiences,” said Sobel. “Place-based education is a response to the alienation of schools from community. Let’s bring education back into the neighborhood. Let’s get the town engineers, farmers, museum curators, mayors, historic site interpreters, and environmental educators onto the schoolyard and inside the four walls of the schools.”
For more info: www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org
THV is a program of the National Park Service/Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program, and the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College.
For Release June 25, 2010
MEDIA CONTACT Debi Duke 845-229-9116, ext. 35 845-242-4121 (cell) <a href=”mailto:deborah_duke@nps.gov”>deborah_duke@nps.gov</a>
Hyde Park, NY – Area educators are invited to discover new ways to use the region’s special places to teach all disciplines and grade levels at Reading, Writing, & Thinking the Hudson Valley. Registration is open for the 8th annual summer institute to be held July 27-29 at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home and Presidential Library in Hyde Park. The program is organized by Teaching the Hudson Valley (THV).
More than 20 workshops will connect educators with artists, historians, writers, and scientists, as well as their colleagues from schools, parks, and historic sites throughout the Valley. On Day 2 participants will choose one of five off-site experiences.
This year’s keynote address, “PLACE-BASED EDUCATION: Making School More Like A Farmer’s Market,” will be delivered by David Sobel , co-director of the Center for Place-Based Education, Antioch University New England. “Teaching doesn’t have to be limited by textbooks that crowd out real-life experiences,” said Sobel. “Place-based education is a response to the alienation of schools from community. Let’s bring education back into the neighborhood. Let’s get the town engineers, farmers, museum curators, mayors, historic site interpreters, and environmental educators onto the schoolyard and inside the four walls of the schools.”
THV is a program of the National Park Service/Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program, and the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College.
Complete release at <a href=”http://www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org/NEW-Summer-Institute/NEW-Summer-Institute/Placed-Based-Education-Pioneer-David-Sobel-Keynotes-THV-s-2010-Summer-Institute.html” >http://www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org/NEW-Summer-Institute/NEW-Summer-Institute/Placed-Based-Education-Pioneer-David-Sobel-Keynotes-THV-s-2010-Summer-Institute.html</a>
