David Sobel, core faculty in AUNE’s Dept of Education, is a regular contributor to the Community Works Journal. In this article, Swimming Upstream Against the Current: Changing the School Improvement Paradigm, David illustrates how Crellin Elementary School in Oakland, Maryland, effectively implemented a place-based education approach and became the number one elementary school in Maryland.

Leaving Farming to Become a Psychologist—and Making Lasting Friendships
For over forty years Roxy Wolfe and Roger Peterson have been close friends. Wolfe, a longtime psychologist, met Peterson in the Doctor of Psychology program