Summer at Wildlife Expeditions is Never Boring
It will be a busy week! Staff at Wildlife Expeditions have been noticing a new trend in reservations this summer, with most reservations being made within one week of their scheduled departure time – a significant shift from historic norms. …
Teton Valley Community School Summer Programs Explore, Bake and Get Muddy
Teton Valley Community Schol (TVCS) continues a busy summer of programming! Last week, TVCS campers traveled to Cress Creek Trail on the Snake River, studied stream food webs at Darby Creek, and explored their senses while baking amazing cherry pies at Full Circle Farm. …
Home Stretch for Graduate Program
This week is the final week for the Graduate Program! There are two great events to celebrate the graduate students’ accomplishments from this past year: a reception for grads and their families on Wednesday, July 30 at 4:30 p.m. …
Teton Research Institute Offers Workshop on Water Quality
Last week Doug Wachob and Kevin Krasnow attended a week-long National Science Foundation training at the Social Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Maryland. There they participated in a workshop on teaching about socio-environmental systems and developed a case study module focused on wildfire ecology and management in Jackson Hole and other wildland-urban interface communities. …
Field Education Summer Programs Camp, Create and Canoe
The Jackson Campus welcomed thirteen teenage boys from Miami for Higher Grounds – an exposure therapy program that is run collaboratively by Dr. Gary Lancelotta and Jackson Campus Field Education instructors. The program makes use of the Doug Walker Challenge Course, …
AmeriCorps Intern Returns as Teacher Chaperone
Megan Zaranek, fall 2010 AmeriCorps intern, reaped the benefits of her hard work last week when she returned to Jackson campus as a 7th grade science teacher and chaperone for Eagleview Middle School. Soon after the Colorado Springs school hired her, …
Winding up the Workshop with the Best Tea in Bhutan
Our 10-day workshop ended on Monday, January 20. The final three days of the workshop were geared towards the teacher participants transferring their learning back to their own schools, classrooms, and communities. The teachers also participated in a series of leadership initiatives as they pondered how to lead other teachers in their school & …
Integrating Place-Based Education in the Bhutanese Curriculum: From Theory to Practice
The essential questions, what is place-based education (PBE) and why is PBE important, were explored during the first half of the Damphu workshop. By day five, participants asked questions around how to integrate PBE into the existing curriculum and the feasibility of doing so, …
Day to Day in the Workshop
As all good professional development should be, this place-based education workshop is structured around daily goals, objectives and themes as well as meals and snacks. Each day we take a morning tea at about 10:30 am, …
Digging Into Damphu
The past two days, workshop participants, Leslie and I have really been ‘digging’ into connecting with this place this place, Damphu, Bhutan, literally and figuratively. The service learning project was kicked off with exploration stations, …
