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Relevance, Rigor, and Relationships

The 3 R's to Place Based Education

History of Appalachian PBE

Project Demographics

Teacher Interviews

Radford University Answers: .

Teacher Resources

Principal Interviews

AASIS at RU

Benefits of PBE

-John Wheeler, Principal East Montgomery H.S.

Place-Based Education

-Place-Based Education by David Sobel

Sources

“Place-based education challenges the meaning of education by asking seemingly simple questions: Where am I? What is the nature of this place? What sustains this community?”

Foxfire is the name of a series of books which are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine. The students' portrayal of the previously-dismissed culture of southern Appalachia as a proud, self-sufficient people with simple beliefs, pure joy in living, and rock-solid faith shattered most of the world-at-large's misconceptions about these 'hillbillies'.

Foxfire is the living connection between the high school students in the magazine program and their heritage, built through interaction with their elders. These students, through their own choices, have worked for four decades to document and preserve the stories, crafts, trades, and personalities of their families, neighbors, and friends. By doing so, they have preserved this unique American culture for generations to come.

•Foxfire is a method of classroom instruction—not a step-by-step checklist, but an over-arching approach that incorporates the original Foxfire classroom's building blocks of giving students the opportunity to make decisions about how they learn required material, using the community around them as a resource to aid that learning, and giving the students an audience for their work beyond the classroom.

When the Appalachian Regional Commission asks: How can we create sustainable communities?

What is Place-Based Education?