Place Network Dispatch: Forest Rehabilitation Student Project
Forest Rehabilitation and Education Lead
by Fairview Elementary 5th Graders
Columbia, Missouri is home to one of the schools in the Place Network: Fairview Elementary. The fifth graders have been working to improve the environment around their school for years, …
The Studio is a Laboratory for Thinking: Flowers In Bloom
Spring in the Tetons begins with mud! Come join us for our fifth annual In Mud Workshop, April 23rd, 2022. We are looking forward to exploring the dirt together back in person! Recommended for Early Childhood Educators: preschool through lower elementary school. …
Uncovering and Addressing Misconceptions of Place-Based Education
How can language teachers draw on the principles of place-based education and project-based learning to facilitate authentic, student-driven learning experiences? Eleventh and 12th-grade Spanish students at Mountain Academy designed and carried out three projects that highlight the meaning of performative assessment, …
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, …
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, …
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,
