- Place-based, collaborative teaching and learning is possible and valuable in every discipline; we should “learn as if the real world exists.”
- Community-based learning design is an art; there is no formula you can use to teach someone how to do their work best.
- Each of our learning systems will be better, and will improve over time, if the design is informed by the ideas of a supportive community of fellow practitioners.
- Ideas for new learning systems should come both from those working within and outside formal educational institutions.
- High quality collaborations require strong relationships among the leaders.
- Strong relationships take a significant amount of time to grow, and must be nurtured.
- Collaborations should be allowed to evolve and shift over time, to adaptively meet the needs of everyone involved.
- Many different skill-sets and ways of thinking are needed to address the challenges of our region and planet.
- We’re all in this together.
This list of principles was created by the founders of CE Fellows at Western Washington University.