The Clarity Series: Community-Based Learning

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<p>To fully prepare K-12 students for life and career, connect with your community!</p> <p> </p> <p>A successful community-based learning program is a triple win—for students, schools, and the entire community. Curriculum becomes more meaningful and relevant, students are more engaged, and schools and districts benefit from new advocates.</p> <p> </p> <p>Authors Prast and Viegut show how to move beyond guest speakers and field trips to creating a vibrant program that promotes academic achievement and future career skills. In this second acclaimed book in The Clarity Series, readers will learn how to</p> Forge rewarding partnerships with local partners, from major employers to small businesses and community groups Implement a high-quality, sustainable initiative that bridges disciplines Recognize and overcome barriers to effectiveness Apply best practices from today’s most-effective programs <p> </p> <p>Turn to this helpful guide to tap the limitless opportunities and potential offered by community-based learning.<br/> <br/> "Community-based learning, as described in this series, just might be the missing piece we are looking for on our competency-based, personalized learning quest for our students. If we can bring this work together—if we can connect them to their passion (personalize), move them along when they are ready (competency-based) and ground them in real life experience (community-based), perhaps we can truly give them the roots and the wings we have only been theorizing about for fifty years."</p> <p>—Dr. Sandra Dop, Program Consultant</p> <p>Iowa Department of Education</p> <p> </p>