“Throttles up!,” Captain Pete excitedly voiced to his co-pilot Mason as they began down the runway. “Call to control tower, let them know that we’ve taken off,” he called to Nicolas, the flight attendant in the back of the plane. These were the sounds that filled our classroom on the special day that Peter Boyle,
Critical thinking, inquiry, collaboration, creativity, and communication all play a central role in the development of Journeys School students. These 21st century skills are vital in preparing students to be lifelong learners in our current and ever expanding age of information.
A poem is “a metrical composition usually concerned with feeling or imaginative description,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. To students in the Journeys Middle School who have been learning about poetry with local poet, Matt Daly, poetry is more like a tree.
I recently taught a seminar on assessment for the Graduate Program of Teton Science Schools. To engage the students, I began with a series of slides with comical solutions to standardized exam questions. For example, on a traditional multiple choice test, a question showed a triangle with one
Entering the lobby of the Center for the Arts I am surrounded by sculptures, prints, drawings, mobiles and collages. All of these represent a myriad of thoughts, conversations and interactions with children this year. This moment is the celebration of a shared experience, combining learning, working
