For many teachers in the Expeditionary Learning network, summer is a time to step into their students' shoes and do a little learning of their own. This article from Anna Renault highlights just one of EL's summer institutes:
In a project that earned teacher Brian Torres a Disney Planet Challenge Award for $1,000, students from Springville K-8 cleared the site of garbage; planted more than 300 new plants, trees, and shrubs; and tested the water quailty.
Since becoming an EL school in 1992, King has fully reinvented itself—from a low-performing school to one of the highest-performing schools in the state of Maine and a model school within the EL network.
