Journeys School 10th Grade Personal Projects: Drone Photography
Editor’s Note: At Journeys School, all 10th grade students complete a Personal Project as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Each student chooses a topic of personal interest, identifies a goal for their learning, …
Rhodes College Maymester Program Begins at the Kelly Campus
This week the Maymester Rocky Mountain Ecology program kicks off at the Kelly Campus of Teton Science Schools. Fourteen students from Rhodes College will be spending the next four weeks in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem learning about the ecology, …
What Does Service Mean to You?
The group of ten Field Education participants arrived in a 15-passenger van to the Kelly Campus of Teton Science Schools on a warm, sunny day in mid fall. After they heard about their task and received their tools – …
Journeys School 10th Grade Personal Projects: Tour of Teton Science Schools’ Jackson Campus
Editor’s Note: At Journeys School, all 10th grade students complete a Personal Project as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Each student chooses a topic of personal interest, identifies a goal for their learning, …
Journeys School 10th Grade Personal Projects: Talking to Strangers
Editor’s Note: At Journeys School, all 10th grade students complete a Personal Project as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Each student chooses a topic of personal interest, identifies a goal for their learning, …
The Efficacy of Field-Based Education
In the summer of 2014, I found myself a few miles up Slough Creek in Yellowstone National Park watching a sow and two grizzly bear cubs saunter through the marsh. Their presence was quiet and graceful; …
Journeys School 10th Grade Personal Projects: Ski Film
Editor’s Note: At Journeys School, all 10th grade students complete a Personal Project as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Each student chooses a topic of personal interest, identifies a goal for their learning, …
Journeys School 10th Grade Personal Projects: Crocheting Hats
Editor’s Note: At Journeys School, all 10th grade students complete a Personal Project as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Each student chooses a topic of personal interest, identifies a goal for their learning, …
Transference
Editor’s Note: In late April 2016, Teton Science Schools held its first Place-Based Education Symposium, in which staff members shared best practices in design, inquiry, and local learning. Last week, the blog featured a review of the Symposium. …
Place-Based Education Symposium: Communities as Learning Environments
As the emergence of personalized learning, project-based learning, and deeper learning increases, the time is right to connect learning to communities in authentic and meaningful ways. A place-based education approach can connect learning models, …