By Meredith and the TTS37 Teacher TeamI am writing from downtown Tucson, Arizona. The sun is shining and it is a temperate 60 degrees. Students just took off for their much anticipated “town time,” where they get the rare opportunity to roam and explore the cute...
This semester, The Traveling School’s first outdoor adventure was set on the Colorado River– a three-day canoe trip in the Black Canyon section, just downstream from the Hoover Dam! We worked with our wonderful guides, Mags and Justine, through Prescott College....
Can you believe it’s already almost been three weeks?! After a week of orientation in the speckled shade of Prescott’s Ponderosa pines and four days paddling down the emerald waters of the Colorado River’s Black Canyon, we have settled into the Biosphere 2’s casitas...
By Aunge Week 1 with The Traveling School is an amazing and complex time to capture in words: 14+ people (10 students, 4 faculty, 2 admin—Aunge and Jennifer—and parents) converge in a Phoenix hotel and go from strangers to family in a blink of an eye. After a quick...