Teacher Learning Center Programs
The Teacher Learning Center offers a wide array of professional-development opportunities for public and private sector educators, including:
-Professional Development that incorporates place-based learning
-Credit Offered on select programs through regional universities and recertification programs
-Networking Opportunities with colleagues, faculty and facilitators
-Clinical Practice including internships, student teaching and residential experiences
-Innovative Leadership strategies and research-based aspects of educational reform
Professional Development Programs
Increasing Academic Achievement of Diverse Students in Math and Science: An Action Research Project
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Location: Jackson Campus of Teton Science Schools
This workshop is designed to instruct teachers in the process of action research. With this instruction, participants will be empowered to make change within classrooms and schools. Teachers will critically study their own practice and use colleagues as well as current research to develop strategic plans to better meet the needs of diverse learners in the fields of math and science. This course includes a yearlong commitment to working within a group to share best practices and support colleagues in the action research process. Note: the project portion of this course begins in fall 2007 and culminates and is graded in spring 2008.
Graduate Credits: 3 through Utah State University
The www.tetonteachers.org website is a resource for participants in our action research groups. From this website participants can log-in to the basecamp program. Through the basecamp program, participants can communicate with all teachers involved in projects, e-mail groups of people, and download materials from facilitators and share final projects.
Place-Based Education: Connecting to the Local in a Global Age
June 18-21, 2008
Location: Jackson Campus of Teton Science Schools
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
How does the place where you teach influence your curriculum? How can connecting students to local ecology, culture and community foster a global understanding? This summer, explore how place-based teaching and learning can bring new life to your classroom. During this workshop, participants will hike, monitor a stream, design a research project for the classroom, participate in a community scavenger hunt, and more! Each activity will model the pedagogical approaches of place-based learning: project-based, experiential, inquiry-based, interdisciplinary and locally focused. Participants will learn student management strategies to help implement place-based education in the classroom.
Tuition: $430 includes program, meals and lodging, and copy of Teton Science Schools’ Journeys Place-Based Curriculum
Optional Upgrades:
$90, Single room upgrade
$60, Airport shuttle (pick-up and drop-off)
$30, One graduate credit through Utah State University
(to be paid at completion of course)
arrival/check-in: Wednesday, June 18 from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
departure/check-out: Saturday, June 21 at 11:00 a.m.
Click here to download a registration packet for Place-Based Education
Wyoming Stream Team:
Water Quality Monitoring Workshop
June 23-26, 2008
Location: Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Teton Science Schools has been training Wyoming teachers to monitor water quality in local streams since 1993. Many teachers throughout the state participate in the hands-on monitoring program with their students every year and have creatively adapted and expanded the curriculum.
For more information contact Lindsay Patterson at 307.734.3726 or lindsay.patterson@tetonscience.org.Please visit
Please visit http://wyomingstreamteam.org for more information.
Center for Civic Education: We the People
July 13-20, 2008
This program is being offered through the Center for Civic Education and will be held at the Jackson Campus of the Teton Science Schools. For more information please contact Matt Stannigan at mstrannigan@hotmail.com or click here to download a brochure.
Teachers, Children and Nature:
The Science and Math of Global Climate Change
July 20-24, 2008
Location: Jackson Hole, Wyoming
When you ask people about climate change, they are quick to talk politics, overshadowing the math and science behind the issue. Climate change has quickly become a hot topic in many classrooms. The challenge is how to teach the math and science of climate change while at the same time respecting local identity and needs. Participants will consider global warming from multiple perspectives. Tools will be presented for teachers to do the same with their students. The workshop will include conversations with experts in the field including prominent
scientists currently participating in a National Science Foundation climate change project, hands-on activities including a field-day to core trees with a dendrochronologist, training from a GLOBE facilitator and support for classroom implementation that meets state standards. Continuing Education Units available.
Tuition: $430
Optional Upgrades:
$120, Single room upgrade
$60, Airport shuttle (pick-up/drop-off)
$30, One graduate credit through Utah State University (to be paid at completion of course)
arrival/check-in: Sunday, July 20 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.
departure/check-out: Thursday, July 24 at 11:00 a.m.
Click here to download a registration packet for The Science and Math of Global Climate Change
Mountain West Leadership Seminar:
Exploring Excellence and Innovation in Education
August 12-16, 2008
Location: Jackson Campus of Teton Science Schools
This event was developed to provide a unique,
challenging and provocative experience to select educators and administrators in public and independent schools throughout Wyoming and the United States. Guided by a team of distinguished facilitators, participants will investigate the
dynamics of leadership while exploring the question, “What is of value in education?” This seminar will immerse participants in shared experiences that inspire and enhance innovative and effective performance, build community and define excellence in education. This summer, psychologist and school consultant Dr. Michael Thompson will join us as a featured expert. Other facilitators include Jill Bamburg from Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Larry Childs a Project Adventure senior trainer, a facilitator from Dr. Mel Levine’s All Kinds of Minds, Teton Science Schools’ executive director Jack Shea and education director John Haskin.
Tuition: $900
Optional Upgrades:
$120, Single room upgrade
$60, Airport shuttle (pick-up and drop-off)
$60, Two graduate credits through Utah State University (to be paid at completion of course)
arrival/check-in: Tuesday, August 12 from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
departure/check-out: Saturday, August 16 at 11:00 a.m.
Click here to download a Mountain West Leadership Seminar Brochure
Click here to download a registration packet for Mountain West
Leadership Seminar
Increasing Academic Achievement of Diverse Students in Math and Science: Exploring New Opportunities in the Middle and High School Classrooms
August, 2008 (Date TBA)
This program is being offered through a partnership with Teton County Schools and Teton County School District #1. For more information please contact Andrea Rongey at andrea.rongey@tetonscience.org
The Journeys School and Teacher Learning Center Internship and Student Teaching Program have hosted participants from Antioch New England Graduate School, the University of Montana at Bozeman, the University of Northern Colorado, Regis University and Audobon Expedition Institute of Lesley University.
Student Teaching
Journeys School and the Teacher Learning Center work with colleges
and universities to arrange placement and supervision of student teachers. Student
teachers are fully engaged in planning and implementation of an innovative curriculum
that is multi-age, experiential and integrated. Student teachers attend seminars
focused on reflective practice, and they have the opportunity to participate in
professional-development workshops hosted by the Teacher Learning Center.
For more information, please e-mail your name, mailing address, questions and the grade and content area(s) that you are interested in to studentteaching@journeysschool.org.
Sabbaticals, Observations, Customized Workshops
For more information regarding other professional development opportunities
available to educators through the Teacher Learning Center, contact andrea.rongey@tetonscience.org.
Graduate Program
Teton Science Schools' Graduate Program provides a one-year professional residency in the theory and practice of field science, experiential education and leadership skills. It attracts a diverse group of students from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds. With established educational and personal goals, students maximize their abilities and explore the self-directed learning experience.
For more information, contact april.landale@tetonscience.org or john.haskin@tetonscience.org.
Continuing Education Units and/or graduate credit is offered
for Teacher Learning Center workshops.
For more information or to register for workshops, contact Andrea Rongey at
andrea.rongey@tetonscience.org or 307-733-1313, ext. 1117.
Recent Workshops/ Events
Science of Snow
February 15-17, 2008
Mathematics and Science Partnership Project
August 13-17, 2007
Schools Attuned/On Demand
August 6-10, 2007
Mountain West Leadership Seminar: Teachers Exploring Excellence in Education
July 24-28, 2007
We the People - Teacher Workshop
July 15-21, 2007
Wyoming Stream Team Educator Workshop June 25-29, 2007
REAL Schools Initiative/ Ft. Worth , Texas June 18-22, 2007 University School of Nashville June 3-8, 2007 Boys will be Boys and Girls will be Girls: Gender Differences and How the Research Informs Our Work May 18th and 19th, 2007 Wyoming National Board Certification Initiative: Portable Classroom - A Project Adventure Workshop
Place-based Teacher Workshop
Place-based Teacher Workshop
Pre-Candidate Workshop
A John P. Ellbogen Foundation Initiative
May 11 and 12, 2007
No Child Left Inside: A Guide to Place-Based Education - Teacher Workshop
February 2007
Schools Attuned/ On Demand
March 2, 2007
An Introduction to Courage to Teach
May 2006
Integrating Children's Literature & Placed-based Scientific Inquiry
May 2006
All Kinds of Minds: How Every Child Can Succeed
Presentation by Dr. Mel Levine - June 2006
A Mind at a Time: Management by Profile
Workshop provided by Dr. Mel Levine - June 2006
Botanical Research Institute of Ft. Worth
Place-based workshop - June 2006
We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
July 2006
NAEA/ Pacific Region President's Summer Leadership Meeting
August 2006
Schools Attuned/On Demand Teacher Training
August 2006
American History Cowboy Coalition: Civil Rights Summer Institute
August 2006
Project Adventure: Adventure Programming/Teambuilding
August 2006
Facing History and Ourselves
October 2006
Schools Attuned/On Demand - Followup Session
November 2006
Artful Math: Making Connections and Enhancing Instruction
November 2006
International Projects:
Guatemala: In March 2006, Teton Science Schools' Teacher Learning Center, in collaboration with HELPS International, provided EPA-funded training for teachers in rural Guatemala. Teachers learned strategies and developed place-based indoor air quality curriculum designed to meet Guatemala's Ministry of Education 2006 curriculum standards.
Bhutan: In the fall of 2006, the Teton Science Schools' Teacher Learning Center participated in preparing a proposal to introduce and implement a process of place-based education in schools in Bhutan. That proposal resulted in the visit of the Secretary of the Ministry of Education in Bhutan to Teton Science Schools in September 2006.
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