UP, Vermont’s Agency of Education, and three school communities: Harwood Union Middle & High School, Twinfield Union High School, and Winooski Middle & High School, hosted ten youth-adult teams from around New England. The theme of this year’s Excursion was how genuine youth-adult partnership both reflects and can lead to genuine transformation of schools, learning, and outcomes for students.
From Tuesday, April 9th through Friday, April 12th, youth and adult teams from ten New England schools visited Vermont as part of the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) Learning Excursion. NGLC is an organization dedicated to supporting schools and educators who are reimagining public education. Each year, the organization designs an excursion during which teams of high school students, teachers, and administrators visit innovative learning communities with the goal of applying what they learn to their own schools. The theme of this year’s Excursion was how genuine youth-adult partnership both reflects and can lead to genuine transformation of schools, learning, and outcomes for students. Participants toured and met with youth and adults in three school communities: Harwood Union Middle & High School, Twinfield Union High School, and Winooski Middle & High School. In addition to the school visits, the teams participated in a facilitated panel and small group discussions with members of UP for Learning school teams and community partners, all held at the Stoweflake Mountain Resort in Stowe. The four-day excursion was full of inspiring examples and conversations about the present and future of education in Vermont, helping the teams think about how they could bring what they experienced back to their own schools. The Learning Excursion was generously funded by the Barr Foundation. Read more here.
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