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  Back Issues AvailableCommunity Works Journal The print edition of this very special issue is available for $6 per copy, or $3.50 per copy for 20 or more. Use our Downloadable Order Form or, call 802-655-5918 or email for info. This issue is also available on-line at no cost, in PDF format, as a service to the educational community. [48 pages, 1.6 mgs., low res.] Please feel free to contact us if you experience any technical glitches. Written by teachers and accompanied by student work and photos Community Works Journal, features essays and reflections accompanied by curriculum overviews that highlight the importance of place, service, and sustainability to a relevant and meaningful education. Patchwork: Stories of Gardens and Community Patchwork, a new release from Community Works Press, offers an inspired collection of vignettes that explore the reasons why people choose to garden together in community. The book includes first person oral histories from ten Burlington, Vermont community gardeners representing a diversity of cultural perspectives. Gathered by Beret Halverson, the gardeners' stories are accompanied by photographs taken by Jim Flint. Editor's journal entries and several pages of resources provide a helpful guide for those interested in learning how to start and sustain a community or youth garden."Beautiful and moving, these inspiring stories with rich details make one want to run out and start planting!" Larissa Vigue Picard, Vermont Humanities Council "The stories in Patchwork illustrate the rich diversity of people who community garden and show the common thread that brings together love of the land, fresh food, and neighbors." Charlie Nardozzi, National Gardening Association As people in our world search for community and connections to the land, the stories of Patchwork reflect on the ways in which culture is created and passed down through the medium of gardening. In the words of garden educator Joseph Kiefer, "We all carry our stories but rarely have a chance to share them with anyone who really cares to listen. This book was impossible to put down; it pulled me in like a spring rain on newly planted seeds. Patchwork provides a mirror for the diversity of this garden planet." MORE INFO on Patchwork
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• Instructional Best Practices for Service-Learning [1 page summary] • Service-Learning & Assessment Guide: A Field Guide for Teachers A comprehensive guide for assessing service-learning activities. [multi-part format allows selective chapters to be accessed] • The Brain: Implications for Teaching and Learning Aristotle was right when he said, “There is nothing in the intellect that has not been in the senses before.” A classroom teacher explores what recent brain research tells us about learning and teaching. |
A planning and evaluation manual for teachers, created by teachers for teachers. The Workbook contains a solid overview of service learning, planning guides (at both the classroom and site level), extensive resource listings and examples of service learning drawn from the field. Now in use by teachers in more than 30 states!
This documentary contains a series of poignant interviews describe how a student-published community newspaper has affected the adolescent students and the faculty advisors who create it and the townspeople who look forward to each issue. The film makes a powerful case for the academic and social benefits of service learning experiences. [$24.95 + $4.75 s/h per copy]
