The Traveling School Blog
10 Questions with TTS19 Alumna and Bend, Oregon-Based Birth Doula and Educator, Bobbi Mae Anderson
An interview with Maddie Johnson, TTS Marketing & Recruiting Coordinator What motivated you to become a birth doula?Throughout high school and college, I knew that I wanted to work with women and girls in some capacity. In college, I studied maternal health and...
1,825 Days of Community: The Unbreakable Bond of TTS26
Laura Brin, TTS Development Director A Traveling School semester is 105 days long. But the bond of The Traveling School’s 26th semester has endured for 1,825 days and counting.That’s right – five years out, the young women of TTS26 are as tight-knit as when they left...
Honoring RBG: One Alumna’s Reflections on Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Laura Brin, TTS Development Director Jane Belcaster, a Spring 2018 Alumna, hung out with RBG a few years ago. THE Ruth Bader Ginsberg! Then a high school senior coming off her 15 weeks with The Traveling School, Jane put the confidence she honed on her South America...
Tips and Tricks for Virtual Learning
This year, going back to school looks different. Perhaps you are engaging in a hybrid learning plan split between remote and in-person learning. Or maybe you’re slated to live behind a screen for the entire semester.After your first few weeks back at school, we wanted...
Navigating 2020
How The Traveling School Helped Prepare Alumnae for this Year’s ChallengesBy Maddie JohnsonMarketing and Recruiting Coordinator; TTS33 and TTS34 Faculty “TTS taught me that life will sometimes hurt like hell. It’s not perfect. It’s not as simple as it seems. It...
Harder Times Ahead (hopefully)
A Message From John Shea John Shea, current TTS Board member and father of TTS29 Alumna, Eila Shea, has spent the better part of his career rethinking secondary education and the better part of his adult life traveling the world. He has taught at the Cambridge Rindge...
BLM Community Resources
Organizations in Need of Donations Black Lives Matter The Innocence Project Defund the Police NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Black Visions Collective Color of Change The ACLU and the ACLU of Minnesota The Loveland Foundation George Floyd’s Family...
The Intersection of Social Justice, Health Care and Copper Hair
An Interview with Alumna Abby Wilson TTS: What are you doing now and what are some of the highlights or accomplishments you are most proud of? AW: Since graduating from the George Washington University in Washington, DC with a degree in international affairs...
Ten Years Later: Where I’ve Been, Where I Am and Where I’m Going
Reflections from Traveling School alumnae Becca Baruc. I went on The Traveling School ten years ago. Ten. Years. Ago. I’m now in Chicago as a visual artist, teacher, curator and my Traveling School semester still defines my journey today. When I arrived to Chicago, I...
Alumna Spotlight: Emma Owens Receives Adventure Learning Grant
Upon returning from her Traveling School semester, Emma Owens realized a passion for learning in classrooms without walls. Now, a student at Fairhaven college, Emma plans on taking her passion to India. As a recipient of the Adventure Learning Grant, Emma will travel...