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Traveling School days are structured but not routine

Daily Schedule

​Every day at The Traveling School is different. Days are filled with academics, travel, conversations with local community members, outdoor adventures, community service projects and more. The Traveling School carefully tracks academic hours for each class whether a sit-down lecture, a historic tour or a guest speaker. You aren’t just going to school, you are living it, and each morning starts with a whiteboard schedule.

Students are involved in each portion of the day from helping prepare meals, to cleaning up campsites to packing and moving group gear. A day at The Traveling School means being community oriented, flexible and engaged.

Your daily schedule might look like this:

6:45-7:30
Sunrise yoga at the campground

7:30-8:00
< 5 minute showers!

8:00-9:00
Cook crew helps prepare breakfast

9:05-10:05
Algebra II. Create word problems about the rate of change for home prices in the community you’re in.
Work together to solve each other’s word problems.

10:10-11:10
History class. Finalize your arguments for a small group debate next class.

11:10-11:20
Snack time!

11:25-12:25
Literature class. Work on close readings of passages from The Round House by Louise Erdrich.

12:30-12:55
Cook crew preps lunch

1:00-1:30
Lunch!

1:45-1:55
Get ready to rock climb!

2:00-2:30
Enjoy some tunes or a podcast for Global Studies on the drive

2:30-5:00
Climb on!

5:00-6:00
Discuss current conservation efforts with climbing guides on the way to camp

6:15-7:00
Dinner and clean crew duties

7:00-8:30
Study Hall

8:30-9:30
Gratitude circle

9:45
In tents

10:00
Voices off, headlamps on – study, journal, or get some rest!

Daily Schedule

The Traveling School brought inspiration, engagement and purpose to my education and my life. Coming home I still wake up every day excited to try and learn something new and feel as engaged as I did when I woke up in a tent every day with the closest community ever.

Saskia, Fall 2019 Southern Africa