TTS37 Semester Blog

By BronwynAfter we left Patagonia, Arizona, we spent four nights camping at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which, who would’ve guessed, was absolutely phenomenal. During our time at Organ Pipe, we explored invigorating work in all of our classes. In...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Karen Weiss is an alumna parent. Her daughter, Lulu, was on the Fall 2021 semester in the Western United States. She is excited to share some of her reflections with the next generation of TTS parents.   Hello From The Other Side…… As a mother of 2 teenage girls, I...