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TARTANS Take to Training in the Tetons
Recently, ...
Ozarks Teacher Corps: Rural Place-based Learning in Missouri
Hearth and Home
The spirit of the Muries remains ever strong, exemplified through a remarkable honor bestowed upon long-time Murie Ranch Docent, Dan McIlhenny in 2021.
Grand Teton ...
Help in coming up with ideas for Personal Projects or Community Projects
Tamarack, Idaho is home to one of the schools in the Place Network: Mountain Community School. Mountain Community School opened its doors to students for ...
Partnership Highlight – Ruch Outdoor Community School
Finding Our Place at Ruch Outdoor
Written by Kim Neiswanger, First Grade Teacher, Ruch Outdoor Community School – Originally published in Applegater, an Oregon-based Community ...
Place-Based Education and Ethnomathematics
Teton Science Schools’ Field Education Instructor Alex Sivitskis coauthored a study about place-based education and ethnomathematics titled: “Place-Based Approach to the Praxis of Ethnomathematics ...
Community is Key to Rural Teachers’ Success: Wyoming’s New Rural Teacher Corps
By definition, rural schools are “located in remote geographical locations where the distance to an urban city is over 100 miles” (Campo Ringler ...
From Jackson, Wyoming to Kampala, Uganda: Place-Based Education for Adults
When we think about place-based education (PBE), our minds often go first to children. That is, our Pre-K to 12th grade students, classrooms, and ...
Dr. Jane Goodall receives the 2022 Murie Spirit of Conservation Award: The Future is in Our Children’s Hands
At age 88, Dr. Jane Goodall has lived a full life. Best known for her groundbreaking research of wild chimpanzees that spanned six decades, Dr. ...
Teton Science Schools To Host Public Speaker Series Featuring Educator And Mathematician Paul Zeitz
MOOSE, Wyo. – Teton Science Schools is pleased to welcome author, educator, and self-proclaimed math “evangelist” Paul Zeitz as the first speaker in its 2022-2023 ...
WYOMING SCHOOLS AT A CROSSROADS: Cows on the Playground, Horses in the Classroom—Rural Teacher Corps Builds Pipeline
Certain experiences only happen to rural schoolteachers.
When Brooke Johnson, 35, taught at Slack Elementary, a one-room schoolhouse in Parkman, near Ranchester, a goat who ...
