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Harris Center describes long-running ConVal partnership; district pays one-third of school-program costs
Summary
Representatives from the Harris Center outlined a decades-long place-based education partnership with ConVal schools that serves about 1,400 students annually and noted the district pays one-third of program costs while the center raises the remaining two-thirds.
Staff from the Harris Center for Conservation Education told the Contoocook Valley School District board that their school programs bring teacher-naturalists into classrooms and school neighborhoods year-round and that the partnership dates to 1972.
"Every year in ConVal, we work with more than 1,400 ConVal students," said Jenna Spear, identified as the school's program manager and teacher naturalist. Spear and Karen Rent, also a teacher naturalist, told the board the Harris Center supports about 90…
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