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May 25, 2007

First Annual Summer Institutes in Place-Based Education Planned

SEATTLE, WA – A series of ground breaking education professional development opportunities was announced today by the School-Community Leadership Consortium at Antioch University Seattle.

Ted Wright, the Consortium's director, noted, "The Summer Institutes in Place-Based Education are the only forum I know of that focuses on real-world tools for teachers as well as the range of possibilities for place-based school reform."

The three-day Institutes will be June 26-28 in Sitka, Alaska, July 19-21 in Juneau, Alaska, and August 9-11 in Seattle, Washington.

"The first half of our time will focus on the evolution of place-based education from its roots in environmental education to its ongoing development as a comprehensive reform movement that connects student learning to local community and culture," Wright said. "The second half will cover ways educators can use state-of-the-art tools such as community/cultural resource mapping and digital storytelling to make learning local."

Antioch University Seattle, the Alaska Native Educators Association and the Southeast Alaska Native Educators Association will sponsor the Summer Institutes. Facilitators include: Wright, Consortium director and coordinator of the Summer Institutes; Ray Barnhardt, director of Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and co-director of the Consortium; Rob Wang, core faculty in Environmental Education at Antioch and Consortium co-director, and Gregory Smith, keynote presenter at the Seattle session, professor of Teacher Education at Lewis & Clark College and co-editor of the forthcoming "Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity."

Registration for the three-day Institutes is ongoing. More information, including registration forms, agenda, travel arrangements and presenters can be found at the Institute website: http://ankn.uaf.edu/NPE/Southeast/Summer2007.html.

The website also provides detailed information about how to register for college credit, if desired.

Contact: Ted A. Wright
Phone: 206-501-0637
E-mail: twright@antiochsea.edu

About Antioch
At Antioch University Seattle, adult learners find innovative, individualized programs with a commitment not only to academic excellence, but also to community service and social justice. Antioch is an accredited university in downtown Seattle. You'll find numerous master's degrees, a B.A. completion program in liberal studies, a doctorate in clinical psychology plus teaching and other certificates.

Antioch Seattle is one of six campuses of Antioch University, founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Horace Mann, noted abolitionist and first president of Antioch College, gave a charge to the class of 1859 that is repeated to each Antioch graduating class: "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

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