Getting Started with Place-based Learning

What if your community was more than just a backdrop—what if it was your classroom? In this episode of The Deep Dive, we explore how place-based learning transforms the familiar streets, parks, and people around us into powerful tools for education.

Place-based learning isn’t about the occasional field trip. It’s about embedding learning directly into the local environment, making it relevant, personal, and deeply engaging. Students don’t just absorb information—they investigate, question, and contribute. They connect universal subjects like history, ecology, and civic engagement to the real places they know, grounding knowledge in authentic experience. The result is learning that sticks, because it’s lived.

In this conversation, we unpack what makes place-based learning so unique, and then dive into vivid, practical examples ...