Hearth and Home
The spirit of the Muries remains ever strong, exemplified through a remarkable honor bestowed upon long-time Murie Ranch Docent, Dan McIlhenny in 2021.
Grand Teton National Park Chief of Interpretation and Partnerships Vicki Mates awarded Murie Ranch’s “Docent Dan” McIlhenny the prestigious title of Honorary Interpretive Park Ranger this fall. …
Help in coming up with ideas for Personal Projects or Community Projects
Tamarack, Idaho is home to one of the schools in the Place Network: Mountain Community School. Mountain Community School opened its doors to students for the first time in August 2022, and this is our first dispatch from their team, …
Partnership Highlight – Ruch Outdoor Community School
Finding Our Place at Ruch Outdoor
Written by Kim Neiswanger, First Grade Teacher, Ruch Outdoor Community School – Originally published in Applegater, an Oregon-based Community Newsmagazine
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Place-Based Education and Ethnomathematics
Teton Science Schools’ Field Education Instructor Alex Sivitskis coauthored a study about place-based education and ethnomathematics titled: “Place-Based Approach to the Praxis of Ethnomathematics Education: Investigating Woven Bamboo Doko of Southern Bhutan.”
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December 2022 – Slammin’ Salmon
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT – Forensic Project Update
This past week we have started working on a project called Unsolved Mysteries. We all got to pick what we wanted to learn about. We got to choose from the Lost Colony of Roanoke, …
Community is Key to Rural Teachers’ Success: Wyoming’s New Rural Teacher Corps
By definition, rural schools are “located in remote geographical locations where the distance to an urban city is over 100 miles” (Campo Ringler and Jones). That means almost all school districts in the state of Wyoming are classified as rural schools. …
From Jackson, Wyoming to Kampala, Uganda: Place-Based Education for Adults
When we think about place-based education (PBE), our minds often go first to children. That is, our Pre-K to 12th grade students, classrooms, and communities in which we live.
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Dr. Jane Goodall receives the 2022 Murie Spirit of Conservation Award: The Future is in Our Children’s Hands
At age 88, Dr. Jane Goodall has lived a full life. Best known for her groundbreaking research of wild chimpanzees that spanned six decades, Dr. Goodall’s work has changed our understanding of our own humanity. …
