The District Administration – Matt Zalaznick
“Place-based learning can play a pivotal role in urban environments, says Ethan Lowenstein, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Eastern Michigan University and director of the Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition. It can connect students to their natural environment in an era when many young people become engrossed in—and isolated by—their mobile devices, says Lowenstein, who is guiding 30 schools in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in the implementation of place-based learning.” (more)