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Upland
Hills Farm |
Upland Hills Farm was founded by Knight and Dorothy
Webster in 1960. Knight was a farm boy from Wisconsin with a
degree in agriculture and Dorothy was an educator. Their
dream was to bring the joys and lessons of rural life to an
ever increasing urban society.
That dream has taken many paths through the years. The Farm
has grown from 1,000 people served in 1960 to over 100,000
people annually today. We've expanded services from the
initial day camp and hayrides to the programs listed in the
bars to the left.
The traditions of the farm are now being carried on by a
second generation: Steve and Leslie Webster, with Casey
Berant as the Camp Director and Farm Manager.
www.uplandhillsfarm.com
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Upland
Hills Ecological Awareness Center |
HOW CAN WE AT ONCE ENRICH OUR LIVES AND HONOR
NATURE?
WHAT THINGS NURTURE OUR AWARENESS OF THE DEEP CONNECTION WE
ALL HAVE WITH THE NATURAL WORLD?
HOW CAN WE DO MORE WITH LESS?
Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center exists to explore
these questions. Constructed by dedicated and ambitious
volunteers from 1973 to 1977, the Center was designed to
embrace and blend into Nature... both visually and
ecologically. It was envisioned to serve as a beautiful and
comfortable gathering space where people could learn and
journey together toward a joyful and responsible relationship
with the natural world.
http://www.uheac.org
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Upland
Hills CSA
Community Supported Agriculture |
Welcome to the Upland Hills Organic CSA!
With the inspiration of this year’s school theme, The
Learning Community, members of our faculty along with
present and former parents and individuals from Upland Hills
Farm and Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center have taken
the beginning steps to create a sustainable community farm.
With the commitment of Les Roggenbuck of East River Organic
Farm and the blessing of Steve and Leslie Webster of Upland
Hills Farm along with many other organizations and
University support we are ready to open this opportunity to
you.
There are many inspiring ideas being considered at this
planning stage, especially as we apply for grant money to
aid in the ongoing development of a community farm. Some
examples are using the farm as an “incubator” for teaching
about sustainable growing practices, year-round farming, and
educational outreach.
http://www.uplandhillscsa.org
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Starkey Hearing Foundation
"So the World May Hear" |
Giving the Gift of Hearing
While there is much work still to be done, The Starkey
Hearing Foundation has brought the gift of hearing to
children around the world thanks to the help of our many
volunteers and donors. The Foundation has made such an
impact on the lives of so many – and will work to continue
to do so.
The Starkey Hearing Foundation and Upland Hills School
are entering into a relationship committed to the Education
of Children through the gift of Hearing. Over the next
12 months we will be working on several exciting projects.
Check this site for more details as they become available.
Please visit the "So the World May Hear" web site and see
the wonderful thing we are doing together.
http://www.sotheworldmayhear.org
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Association of Independent Michigan Schools (AIMS) |
The Association of Independent Michigan Schools (AIMS)
is a non-profit organization of preprimary, elementary, and
secondary schools whose purpose is to support and advance
independent education in Michigan
http://www.aims-mi.org
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Buckminster Fuller Institute is committed to a successful and
sustainable future for 100% of humanity. Founded in 1983 and
inspired by the Design Science principles pioneered by the
late Buckminster Fuller, BFI serves as an information resource
for concerned citizens around the world.
http://www.bfi.org |
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BigPictureSmallWorld™ |
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BigPictureSmallWorld™’s mission is make sense of globalization
—by turning complexity into insight and opportunity, and
interconnection into resources. BigPictureSmallWorld turns
information overload into sensible knowledge that leads to
understanding and effective action.
http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com |
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EUGENE FRIESEN,
performing artist/composer
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Eugene Friesen is at the forefront of a new generation of
musicians versed in classical, popular and world music. A
graduate of the Yale School of Music, he is active as a
performer, composer, teacher and recording artist.
Friesen's gift for the responsive flow of improvisatory music
has been featured in concerts all over the world with the
Paul
Winter Consort , Trio Globo, and with poets Yevgeny
Yevtushenko and Coleman Barks. He has performed as a soloist
at the International Cello Festival in Manchester, England;
Rencontres d'Ensembles de Violoncelles in Beauvais, France;
and at the World Cello Congress in Baltimore, Maryland.
http://www.celloman.com
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Rafe Martin is the author of over 20 books and the recipient
of three American Library Association Notable Book Awards,
Four Parent's Choice Gold Awards, two Anne Izard Storyteller's
Choice Awards, an American Folklore Society Aesop's Accolade
Award, several American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists,"
an IRA Teacher's Choice Award and many other awards of
Distinction. His work has been cited in Time Magazine,
Newsweek, U.S News and World Report and USA
TODAY. The Women's National Book Association has honored
him with their Lucille Micheels Pannell Award for his "unique
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"Stories in words are among or oldest, most powerful, most
mysterious tools. Through mere sounds on the air or
squiggles on a page, they give us what no other technology can
-- ourselves"
Rafe Martin |
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http://www.rafemartin.com
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 Our
mission is to unite and organize a grassroots movement of
learners and learning communities dedicated to participant
control, liberation from all forms of oppression, and the
pursuit of freedom.
The National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools is
a nonprofit educational organization. Since 1978, the
Coalition has supported the work of students, parents,
teachers and others in the field of alternative education,
while informing the general public about its benefits and
successes.
http://www.ncacs.org/ncacs.htm |
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The
Independent Schools Association
of the Central States (ISACS)is a membership
organization of more than 200 independent schools from 15
states of the Midwest region. ISACS furthers independent
schools and quality education at large, by…
Preserving the
Independence
of independent schools;
Serving as a
Source
of information about and counsel to schools;
Promoting and
Advocating
for independent schools;
Through
Congruence
between mission and practice, assuring the quality of
independent schools;
Functioning as the
School
for schools by modeling best practices of a learning
organization
http://www.isacs.org |
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