Educating in Place: What a Year in a Pandemic Has Taught Us About Education
One year ago this week, we began a shift to virtual learning at Mountain Academy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our blog post from March 19, 2020 (see below) aimed to support families and educators navigating the overnight transition to teaching, …
What Color is Place?
Honoring Dr. Carolyn Finney for International Women’s Day …
“In the case of race and the environment, it’s not just who we imagine has something valuable to say. These assumptions, beliefs, and perceptions can be found in the very foundation of our environmental thinking,
Taking Place-Based Education Online: One 5th-Grade Teacher’s Story
Like so many educators, Brian Earls of Fairview Elementary School had to reimagine his craft in the pandemic’s wake. If this had been a typical school year, Brian would have taught science to all of the 5th-graders at Fairview and reading to his homeroom class. …
The Beautiful Work of Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus
In Ron Berger’s noteworthy book, An Ethic of Excellence, the author paints a picture of school culture that invites students to care deeply about the quality of their work. He uses the winsome phrase “beautiful work” to convey the idea that striving for excellence is catching, …
Mountain Academy Students Remind Drivers to Look Both Ways so Elk Can Cross Safely
When one of the Mountain Academy 4th and 5th grade classes learned that the highway near their school is a problematic area for wildlife-vehicle collisions, they wanted to do something about it. Bari Bucholz, their science teacher, …
Stretching Into New Spaces – Professional Development at TSS is Carving a New Educational Landscape
Teton Science Schools has a long history of supporting educators through professional development at many levels. From a year-long graduate program that mentors aspiring educators in the theories and practices of place-based education to consulting with entire school districts on strategies for adopting a place-based framework, …
Welcome to the Subnivean Zone!
Bring the wonders of winter into your teaching with our upcoming virtual snow science workshop. Dig into the foundations of snow science using materials we’ll send you ahead of the workshop and learn ways it can be used to explore and introduce concepts in elementary and secondary science. …
Three Reasons Why Place-Based Education Can Transform Your Teaching Right Now
Enroll now in our Virtual Introduction to PBE course for educators
Many educators like the idea of place-based education and have considered integrating this method into their teaching practice, but have not yet taken the next steps. …
Watercolor: One of the 100 Languages Children Speak
Picture a crowded display of children’s artwork with a refrigerator door as the exhibit space. Ever wondered why those exuberant creations earn such fanfare, regardless of whether they stray outside the lines? Now picture a child putting brush to paper, …
TSS Stories of Impact: Kimberly Johnston
Kimberly Johnston is a Teton Science Schools Field Education alumna. Kimberly participated in a week-long field education program at the Kelly Campus in the winter of 1985. Kimberly is currently a partner at Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) in the EY Americas Power & Utilities practice.