The Traveling School Blog
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...
Traveling School Impact: #GlobalHome
Three years ago, Simrill Smith hopped off a plane from a life-changing experience at The Traveling School’s 26th semester in southern Africa. Simrill remembers the inspiring classes and strong community that developed at The Traveling School with deep fondness. “My...
Dizzying Freedom, by Katherine Reid
My name is Katherine Reid and I am writing to tell you a story. It’s not one you hear every day. It’s the story of a 15 year old girl from Montana. She went to school and became numb to what she was learning, ideas were being shoved into her mind and she didn’t filter...
Our Six Favorite Places to Visit in South America
After 15 years of traveling through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia...here are some of the best adventures to be had (from our opinion)! 1. Santa Cruz Trek in the Cordillera Blanca mountains of Peru. Check out Cafe Andino in Huaraz as a jumping off point. 2. Raft the...
The beauty of learning…in Africa.
by Natalie Trono, Traveling School Alumna, TTS22 southern Africa semester. When I was a freshman in high school, I learned about The Traveling School through an upperclassman. I was automatically inspired by the school’s message and decided that it was opportunity I...