A Trail To Every

Classroom

A Place-Based, Rediscover the outdoors and your sense of exploration

Service-Learning while learning effective, meaningful ways to lead your
Professional Development students to their own discoveries of nature, physical chal-
Workshop Series lenges, and the distinctiveness of their own communities.
Connecting
The significance of the Appalachian Trail is not its length, but its story
Youth & Communities of civic engagement in preserving a recreational, natural, cultural,
Along the spiritual, and now, educational, resource for challenges and dreams.
Appalachian Trail
Through this cumulative series of workshops, you will create your own
experiential learning curriculum based on state educational standards
that integrates hands-on study of Appalachian Trail resources in
your community and the opportunity for teacher and student networks
from Georgia to Maine.

Research shows that place-based education and service-learning increases:

• Student achievement
• Community engagement
• Environmentally responsible behavior
“It is our desire to bring the environment and the community into
the core of the curriculum. For too long, we feel, environmental education
had been like art, a tassel on the edge of the school fabric, not the warp.
Our Objective is to make ecological literacy a serious part of the
school philosophy. Through grounding the curriculum in local places,
we make learning more meaningful and we increase student
achievement … The best curriculum serves as a bridge between
the inner and outer worlds, between play and work, between dreams and
reality. The best education system will shape adults who both
love the earth and are smart and competent.”

—David Soble, Children & Nature, Design Principles for Educators, 2008

Highlights
• The Trail to Every Classroom (TTEC) program is offered free of charge
including all lodging, meals, and materials.
• Presenters include national experts in Place-Based Education, Service-
Learning and Curriculum Development.
• You are expected to develop curriculum with an Appalachian Trail focus.
• Five graduate credits are optional and offered for a fee of $250.00
through Lebanon Valley College. Credits awarded December 2010.
• Support for your curriculum development and implementation through
an increasing network of educators, as well as A.T. and Trail management
partners.

Physical Demands
Each workshop will
include a hike ranging
from one to five miles.
Oh come on, you can
do it!
We will provide sugges-
tions to get you started
hiking even before the
workshops begin.
2010 Workshop Series Schedule

1st Local Workshop then Summer Institute then 2nd Local Workshop

Introduces teams of teachers to Brings all participants together Focuses on curriculum implemen-
the Trail and its resources locally focusing on Place-Based Education, tation and sustainability
Service-Learning, and curriculum
Spring 2010 development Fall 2010
G e o r g i a / T e n n e s s e e /  G e o r g i a /  T e n n e s s e e / 
North Carolina
July 19–23, 2010 North Carolina

April 30–May 1 National Conservation September 24–25

Training Center
USFS Unicoi Work Center Len Foote Hike Inn
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Erwin, Tennessee Amicalola Falls State Park, Georgia
Virginia Virginia

May 7–8 October 15–16

Mountain Lake Resort Wilderness Adventures,
Blacksburg, Virginia Eagle Landing
Fincastle, Virginia
P e n n s y lva n i a / N e w J e r s e y /
West Virginia P e n n s y lva n i a /  N e w J e r s e y /
May 7–8 West Virginia

AMC Mohican Center October 1–2

Delaware Water Gap, Kings Gap Environmental
New Jersey Education Center
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Co n n e ct i c u t / 
m a s s a c h u s e tt s / V e r m o n t /  Co n n e ct i c u t / 
N e w H a m p s h i r e / M a i n e m a s s a c h u s e tt s / V e r m o n t / 
May 14–15 N e w H a m p s h i r e /  M a i n e

AMC Highland Center October 29–30

Crawford Notch, New Hampshire Marsh Billings Rockefeller
National Historical Park
Woodstock, Vermont

Partners & Sp ons ors

Center for Place-Based Learning & Civic Engagement

Affiliated A.T. Trail Clubs
White Mountain National Forest
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
Lebanon Valley College
REI
Leki
Virginia Environmental Endowment
American Honda Foundation
 A Trail To Every
Classroom
A pplicat ion Form
The workshop series is offered free of charge DUE   Teams of two or more from each
including food, lodging, and materials. school are encouraged to apply.
T March 5 T Individuals also welcome.
Participants are responsible for travel and
2010 You should be willing to:
the cost of graduate credit.
• Come with the strong support
of your administrator recognizing
Name________________________________________________________
two days away from school
Position______________________________________________________ • Participate in ALL workshops
and summer session
School_______________________________________________________
• Be willing to hike up to five miles
District_ _____________________________________________________ in one day
Teammates also applying________________________________________ • Develop Trail-based curriculm
unit which utilizes the local
____________________________________________________________ landscape and meets the goals
of your school and grade level
____________________________________________________________
expectations, exemplifying
Administrator’s name___________________________________________ the best practices of Place-Based
Education and Service Learning
Preferred mailing address________________________________________
• Provide written documentation
Town _________________________ State _______ ZIP _ ____________ of your curriculum for possible
inclusion in a model program
School telephone_ _____________________________________________ to be disseminated nationally

Home telephone _______________________________________________ • Participate in program

evaluations
School e-mail__________________________________________________
Return your completed
Home e-mail__________________________________________________ application, including letter
of support by:
Please provide a letter of support from your administrator as part March 5, 2010
of this application expressing commitment and support for your
participation and respond to the following questions on a To: Rita Hennessy
separate page: National Park Service
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
1. How does your school currently incorporate place-based education P.O. Box 50
and service-learning in curriculum? Harpers Ferry, WV 25425
2. Please describe what you hope to gain professionally and personally Office: (304) 535-6170
by participating in TTEC. Fax: (304) 535-6270
Rita_Hennessy@nps.gov