At The Field Semester, we believe that meaningful education requires deep reflection, responsibility, and accountability to the land and communities we serve. We are actively engaging in intentional work on the following topics, understanding that this is an ongoing process and dialogue:

Land Acknowledgement

We are carefully crafting a Land Acknowledgement that honors Indigenous Peoples on whose land our school resides, the original and first peoples who stewarded this land since time immemorial. Our acknowledgement plans to go beyond words, seeking to create relationships and reciprocal actions that respect Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge.

Obligations and Responsibilities

Our community is committed to understanding the obligations we carry in our work—toward the land, its full history and truths, and its future. We are examining how these responsibilities shape our actions and relationships with students, staff, and local and broader communities.

Ethical Land Practices

We are developing a framework for ethical land practices that guides how we interact with and care for the land. This involves creating principles that reflect respect of its original caretakers, and a commitment to how we move forward as an educational space that seeks to center ethical land practices.

Accountability Statement

We are drafting an Accountability Statement that holds our school and all its members responsible for ensuring that our actions align with our stated values of stewardship and regenerative place-based learning.