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Nishinomiya, Japan
Over the past two years, Burlington and the City of Nishinomiya in Japan have together participated - along with various nonprofit or nongovernmental organizations - in a project known as Renkei, which aims to elevate the concept of sustainability by developing innovative curricula promoting it in school classrooms. Renkei was timed to coincide with the launching of the Period of Integrated Learning in Japan, and the introduction of "sustainability" and "sense of place" in the Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities (the statewide education framework). Over the course of the project, delegates from Japan and Vermont participated in innovative project applications of education for sustainability, presented education-for-sustainability activities to peers, and shared strategies for broadening the constituency that supports education in the schools.
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