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James Fester has worked for more than two decades as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, technology director, and curriculum specialist. His writing spans many different areas and includes Edutopia, ISTE, and National Geographic. His most recently published book titled The National Park Classroom which focuses on how classroom teachers can benefit from the educational resources and experts connected to our national parks.Maggie Delgado-Chernick is an English teacher at Twinsburg High School in Twinsburg, Ohio. She has enjoyed working with members of NWP-KSU at Kent State University and rangers at Cuyahoga Valley National Park on Write Out programming since 2019. Write Out's focus on place-based learning inspired Maggie to pursue additional research on student-led community-oriented projects and service learning. This research and the collaboration with Write Out colleagues led Maggie to create a course titled Writing for Civic Engagement at Twinsburg High School that focuses on getting students and thei