Building Kids’ Citizenship Through Community Engagement

Original date: March 7th, 2018

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Presenter: Bob Coulter

Description: How can we give young people opportunities to grow through productive involvement with their local community? In this webinar, veteran educator Bob Coulter draws on more than 30 years of experience as he shares strategies to support young people in their efforts to become confident, self-directed citizens. These ideas are made practical through recommendations for productive uses of digital technology and a review of frameworks that have proven useful for designing community-based learning experiences.

Bob Coulter is director of the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. The Center is home base for a research and development group exploring ways to support place-based education, integration of technology with environmental experiences, and nature-based approaches to character development. The Center also partners with local environmental groups on urban ecology research and restoration projects. In an earlier life, Bob was an award-winning elementary school teacher in Atlanta, Memphis, Boston, and St. Louis. He has published 2 books with Peter Lang Publishing:  “No More Robots: Building Kids Character, Competence, and Sense of Place” and more recently “Building Kids’ Citizenship Through Community Engagement”