Promoting Social-Emotional Learning
Students became hooked on an owl nest in a classmate’s backyard, turning an unimaginable year into an amazing learning experience. A look at approaching place-based learning through virtual instruction and getting students and families involved in learning about the places where they live. …
Illuminating Untold Stories of Place
In professional learning programs, teachers engage in weekly community-based assignments and discussions to explore the complexities of place, beginning with a foundational investigation to “Uncover Stories of Place” about a non-dominant group in their community. …
How Place-Based Education can be Adopted by Your Community
The Teton Science Schools Place Network is a collaborative network of rural K-12 schools that connect learning and communities to increase student engagement, academic outcomes and community impact. Schools that join the network will have access to sample curriculum, …
What Wonderful Stories Can Sunflowers Tell Us?
Mary Oliver the poet implored us to listen to the stories that the sunflowers can tell us. “Don’t be afraid to ask them questions”, she writes, we can learn many things from those answers. What can students become when they listen to the sunflower’s stories? …
Get Inspired to Give Back in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Martin Luther King Jr. once posed this question to an audience in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957. As a minister, activist, and the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement, …
Remembering E.O. Wilson, “the father of biodiversity”
Teton Science Schools would like to acknowledge the passing of preeminent scientist, naturalist, author and teacher, Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D. He is known as “the father of biodiversity”. E.O. Wilson died on December 26, 2021 in Burlington, …
Rebuilding Field Education at TSS for 2022
Teton Science Schools Field Education is excited to be in the midst of rebuilding. We’re proud of how we’ve weathered the pandemic, with small-scale, non-residential program offerings mostly focused on the local Jackson community, and at the same time, …
Diving into Place-Based Education: Community as Classroom
“In a world that is becoming more individualistic, place-based learning invites young people into the community.”
-An excerpt from Chapter 1 in The Power of Place by Tom Vander Ark, Emily Liebtag, and Nate McClennen
What was one of the most memorable learning experiences of your life? …
Putting Language, History, and Perspective into Place
“[W]hen I say language, I’m really meaning languaging, right? The practice of using language, judging language, reading language, understanding language, having language be the way in which we make meaning in the world. …
Rising Leader Robbie Bond Is Inspiring a New Generation to Speak out for Public Lands
“I am small, but I have giant ideas.”
-Robbie Bond, youth activist and founder of Kids Speak for Parks …
Robbie Bond believes that his voice matters. And he wants other kids to know that their voices are powerful,
