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title: "It Takes a Village: Teenagers Use Community Resources to Pen a Guidebook -"
description: www.edutopia.org/it-takes-village This article provides examples of projects that engage students with their communities in meaningful ways.The students featured drive their own learning and are invested in creating quality products. The projects described demonstrate the benefits of designing student learning experiences that result in applications of skills and concepts to solve relevant, real-world problems and create products with value beyond school walls.
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# It Takes a Village: Teenagers Use Community Resources to Pen a Guidebook

**By [Ben Politzer](https://www.tripoded.com/blog/author/ben-politzer)**  
April 25 2019

[**www.edutopia.org/it-takes-village**](http://www.edutopia.org/it-takes-village)

This article provides examples of projects that engage students with their communities in meaningful ways.The students featured drive their own learning and are invested in creating quality products. The projects described demonstrate the benefits of designing student learning experiences that result in applications of skills and concepts to solve relevant, real-world problems and create products with value beyond school walls.

![Ben Politzer](https://www.tripoded.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Headshot%20Ben%20Tight%20-%20small.jpg?width=170&height=170&name=Headshot%20Ben%20Tight%20-%20small.jpg)

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## Ben Politzer

 Ben is Vice President K-12 Lead Gen at Scholarus Learning, and is interested in connecting people to the right supports. He is a former teacher and school principal. He loves new ideas, new ways of looking at problems, and is forever learning how to be a better dad, leader, and marketer. 

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