New Roots is designed to engage students in bringing together their lived experience of their community and what they are learning in their classrooms to understand their particular place and time in vivid and three-dimensional ways.  We do this in the service of expanding students’ capacity to participate thoughtfully in decision-making as community members, develop economic opportunities as entrepreneurs, and take action to restore ecosystems and solve problems related to sustainability and justice as leaders.  New Roots is a space where students experience being active, contributing parts of the health and wellbeing of the places and people they care about.