Two New TLC Workshops a Success
This fall the Teacher Learning Center offered two new workshops for the first time – Place-Based Teaching for Lower Elementary Teachers and the Wyoming Small Schools Conference. Both workshops were highly successful with small attendance of 8 and 9 teachers, …
Operation Purple Family Retreat
In March of 2010, Teton Science Schools had the pleasure of hosting its first Operation Purple Family Retreats, a program of the National Military Family Association. Designed to help families reconnect after experiencing the stresses surrounding a deployment, …
Graduate Program Begins 19th Year
The rough-legged hawk sits patiently on the fencepost. Elk move down from higher elevations as snow begins to fill the valley. Aspen leaves, half decomposed, rustle through the understory as cold winds usher in winter. …
The Impact of Our Mission
Twelve bright-eyed high school sophomores from Carson High School in South Central Los Angeles woke up on a November Monday morning in cabins on the Kelly campus of Teton Science Schools. By 8:30am they had eaten breakfast, …
Knowing Every Student
Every morning a group of faculty are at the front of school greeting, conversing and engaging each student and parent that arrives. Very few slip by without at least a hello or good morning. I often will check in on a recent sporting event, …
The “Why?” Behind our New TSS Logo
We’ve created a new logo! Over the last two decades TSS has grown dramatically. We now encompass seven strong program areas each with a proven approach to achieving our mission to connect people, …
New CRC Research Director Joins TSS
Educator and Ecologist, Dr. Kevin Krasnow, joins the TSS community as Research Director of the Conservation Research Center and graduate faculty. Recently arriving from Berkeley, California, Kevin is an educator and ecologist passionate about understanding how to live sustainably with the natural world. …
Back to School
As I walked around the middle and high school building on Monday night, I observed small groups of engaged teachers collaborating on a technology challenge. As part of our annual faculty retreat, the faculty first divided into skill sets of content knowledge, …
Pursuing Pika – a Graduate Summer Capstone Experience
Eep, eep, eep….These are the sounds I tracked this summer as a field research technician with the CRC. I chose this experience to cap my learning in the Graduate Program and to connect to this place. …
Storer Scholars Year 1
At the end of the 2011-12 school year at the University of Wyoming, four excellent students from the College of Education were selected as the first class of Storer Scholars. Of these four students, 3 are undergraduates studying to be teachers and 1 is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming, …