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…Among the innovations Oravec brought to her school is CommunityShare, a program that pairs teachers with local topic or discipline experts to teach…

…Nichols has been running a program in partnership with local nonprofit CommunityShare in which her middle school students are paired with high school mentors…

…an online platform that taps the wisdom, skills and experiences of community members nationwide in collaboration with students and educators through real-world learning experiences…

…built CommunityShare to support the kind of hands-on informal learning that predated modern schooling – a time when “young people learned with and from caring adults and elders in [...]

…CommunityShare created a Fellowship where teachers could gather to learn how to create classroom projects that give students real-world learning experiences…

Using their range of specialized skills and a lifetime of insights, community members can connect with teachers as CommunityShare partners to create meaningful and more hands-on learning in and [...]

Advanced Educational Services (AES) teacher Sergio Marquez’s class at Lynn Middle School completed a different sort of class project: building a customized, medically approved mobility device for [...]

Healing our education systems is not just teachers’ work. Again citing Schachter, “In a healthy [robust] learning ecosystem, everyone is a steward.”

…Programs like CommunityShare are responding to the need to foster hands-on learning experiences by reconnecting classrooms with the community around them through project-based learning…

…In this episode, we talk with Josh Schachter – Founder & director of Community Share, a nonprofit that connects community resources, artists, organizations, and people to [...]