Shifting the Paradigm: Ridge and Valley Charter School (Best Classroom Teaching Video Award)
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This video won the Best Classroom Teaching Video Award in our Deeptime Video Awards. A must see for teachers.
See how a deep time approach to education looks, and the impact it has on students. It shows how the Ridge and Valley Charter School, Blairstown, NJ, a public elementary school, grounds its curriculum inside the Cosmic Story and is committed to education for a hopeful sustainable future. In this alumna edited 15-minute video, students, alumni, guides and trustees share their experiences of RVCS and its foundational principles: mutually-enhancing relationships; ecological literacy and sustainability; experiential, project-based learning; and learner-centered, differentiated curriculum. To learn more about the school, go to http://www.ridgeandvalley.org/
- Used by people who call the work: Big History, The New Story
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Ecology/Sustainability, Education
- Learning Stages: Elementary 3 - 5, Elementary K - 2, Middle 6 - 8
- Type: Video
- Keywords: Thomas Berry, education,
- Link to Resource: Click here
- Posted By: Jennifer Morgan
- Date Added: February 26, 2019
Traci and the whole team at R&V Charter School — What a huge gift and guide this is to education. Being able to see a deeptime approach inside the classroom, and how it integrates all learning, is truly inspiring. I hope that every teacher on the Network and beyond watches it.