Jal Mehta and Rod Allen, hosts of the “Free Range Humans” podcast, recently spoke with Dov Stucker, co-founder and lead teacher of Burlington City & Lake Semester. The immersive place-based program, offered by Shelburne Farms and the Burlington School District to high school juniors and seniors, utilizes the city as classroom and curriculum.

A camp for teachers provides immersive professional learning opportunities that mirror the community, agency, and joy of deeper learning for students.

The urgency around learning loss is keeping education spinning in place when the urgency we need is to reimagine schools and address deeply rooted challenges.

With American Rescue Plan Act funds, schools and districts can create three years of awesome and incredible experiences for their students, at a scale that we may never see again.