Bhutan Travel Blog: Reconnecting with Friends

Our past few days have been busy with travels to Thimphu on Friday, January 11 for a meeting with the Teton Science Schools-Bhutan partnership Steering Committee and the first two days of our teacher workshop on Saturday and Sunday (January 12-13). …

Bhutan Blog: Exploring Paro-First full day in Bhutan

After a much needed night of good sleep, our exploration of Bhutan began today by seeing some of the highlights of Paro. Bhumika and Tashi continued as our guides and took us to the College of Education in Paro to look around and visit with some of the faculty. …

Bhutan Travel Blog: Arrival in Bhutan

After 6 pairs of take-offs and landings over the last 48 or so hours, we arrived in Paro, Bhutan today at about 2 pm local time. Our flight path took us from Jackson to Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to Tokyo (only enough time to walk from one flight to the next in Tokyo) to Bangkok (we spent a few hours in beds in the airport hotel in Bangkok) to Bagdogra, …

Bhutan Travel Blog

After nearly five years of bringing graduate students and delegations of teachers from Bhutan to Teton Science Schools, an official delegation from TSS and the University of Wyoming will be traveling to Bhutan in January 2013. …

Monitoring the Birds of the Tetons

It’s not every “New Englander” that is offered the opportunity to band birds in the Tetons for the summer, but so it was for me during the summer of 2012. I was finishing up my graduate work at the University of Maine and my lab mate, …

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, …