Community connections enrich experiential learning and create a relevance for students that supports their development as young citizens. Our local community offers an abundance of opportunities to engage in fieldwork, interview experts, and grow through service projects. Ongoing community connected learning nurtures the development of lifelong learners. These are learners who realize that learning can be done anywhere at any time with an attitude of inquiry and metacognition. They are often people who work to make their communities better places. From preschool through sixth grade at Carlson, we regularly connect students’ learning to our community in a variety of ways in all subject areas, because building good citizens requires more than good test scores, it requires being a life-long learner.