CASE STUDIES

Thriving Communities and a Healthy Environment

In 2014, the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative received a two-year grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to support in select Michigan schools a collection of place-based education projects that focused on stewardship. Participating teachers and staff from our hubs worked with the GLSI’s central staff to create a media-rich case study about each project.

We also developed a set of guiding principles for exemplary place-based stewardship education and an associated  self-assessment rubric.

In addition, we wrote two white papers.

• Benefits of Place-based Stewardship Education (PDF)
• Implementing Place-based Stewardship Education Across the Landscape (PDF) Understanding how place-based stewardship education varies across different grade levels (elementary, middle, high school) and community settings (rural, suburban, small town, urban).