Sarah Anderson ’05 (New England, MEd Elem. Educ.) has a new book out on place-based education, Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum. She is the fieldwork and place-based education coordinator at The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science in Portland, OR.
Kate Sipe ’02
What if classrooms were envisioned as a small democracy? What if our students practiced democracy in their classroom year after year? Further, what if they knew they deserved it? Kate Sipe, ’02, Antioch University Seattle MA in Education with Graduate Teacher Preparation and an adjunct faculty who teaches Classroom Management courses, published a timely post in Medium in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election about the importance of democratic schools and teaching civics to our children: “Psst… Hey teachers… Let’s teach civics in our classrooms every single day.” Start today. Start small. Just start. Let your classroom be a microcosm