This workshop invites administrators, and leaders to consider the questions: “Where does learning happen?” and why this question in not a more prominent inquiry for K-12 schools. Where learning happens is extremely important for all teachers in their day-to-day professional judgement (does the lesson happen at desks? in the library? online?), yet discussions about where learning happens in educational contexts are uncommon. Discussions about land-based, outdoor and place-based learning, for example, are essentially where conversations. Learning out of the school, in nature and community, so that the world might be part of the human community. Educational leaders very-well know that where is a significant dimension to pedagogy yet struggle to make where more central to school discourse and practice. In re-positioning where as a pedagogical area on equal footing with curriculum (the what) and pedagogy (the who/how).
