Our purpose in the Upper Valley of Vermont is to engage schools, conservation districts, farmers, and the public in understanding the intersections between soil, water, public health, and climate resiliency. As a part of Soil Carbon Coalition's (SCC) large-scale citizen-science program, Didi Pershouse of Thetford, Vermont develops curriculum on soil health principles and whole systems landscape function, and facilitates workshops that empower communities through mutual listening. Cat Buxton works with schools to integrate the curriculum into project-based education around composting and gardening.Pershouse and Buxton will work together at schools and in partnering with Upper Valley educators to produce professional development opportunities.SCC is a nonprofit organization (501c3) wanting to advance the practice, and spread awareness of the opportunity, of turning atmospheric carbon into soil carbon (such as organic matter, humus, etc.). A different kind of science is needed, based on shared evidence, open participation, specific locations and situations, and on learning to manage wholes consisting of people, land, and money.Our principal project is the Soil Carbon Challenge, an international "competition" to see how fast land managers can turn atmospheric carbon into water-holding, fertility-enhancing soil carbon. SCC's director, Peter Donovan, has been touring the continent since 2011 in a converted school bus, doing soil sampling and monitoring on land managed by interested and committed people.SCC is facilitating community involvement in measuring, monitoring with the Atlas of Biological Work--an open-source platform or framework for facilitating shared, local intelligences on soil health and landscape function, based on wider participation and shared evidence.We think the opportunity for increasing carbon and water in the soil is huge, and will help drive improvement in social and economic conditions as well as enhance biodiversity and ecological resiliency. We also offer a participatory workshop as well as a residency for communities interested in organizing their own assets and resources toward this kind of shared intelligence.Our work in developing the Soil Health and Watershed Function curriculum and teachers manual will help to teach stewardship of our planet, value of our shared resources, and concern for environmental and community health.