Director's notes March 12, 2014 Hi all, Goal setting conferences in full swing today and tomorrow. Please make sure you are signed up to visit your child's/children's classrooms. Thursday is an in-house minimum day with a release time of 1 pm; you can pick up your children or they can stay (we will have activities [...]
Director's notes March 5, 2014 Hi all, Many thanks to everyone [...]
Maura Bannon received BAs in Environmental Ethics and Policy and Spanish from the University of Portland, Oregon. She earned her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential and Masters in Teaching from National University in San Diego, California. Maura has several years of teaching experience with multiple grade levels. Maura was drawn to SELS because of the integration of outdoor adventure, community, [...]
Expedition Express Swifter, Higher, Stronger: Our class has been super excited about the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Our fieldwork to Squaw Valley before Ski/Skate week was amazing. Students rode the Squaw Valley tram to High Camp and were given a tour of the newly renovated Olympic Museum of the 1960 Winter Games. We graphed the [...]
Expedition Express Swifter, Higher, Stronger: Our class has been super excited about the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Our fieldwork to Squaw Valley before Ski/Skate week was amazing. Students rode the Squaw Valley tram to High Camp and were given a tour of the newly renovated Olympic Museum of the 1960 Winter Games. We graphed [...]
Director's notes Feb 26, 2014 Hi all, Re-enrollment forms are due [...]
Learning is fostered best in communities where students' and teachers' ideas are respected and where there is mutual trust. Learning groups are small in Expeditionary Learning schools, with a caring adult looking after the progress and acting as an advocate for each child. Older students mentor younger ones, and students feel physically and emotionally safe
Learning is both a personal process of discovery and a social activity. Everyone learns both individually and as part of a group. Every aspect of an Expeditionary Learning school encourages both children and adults to become increasingly responsible for directing their own personal and collective learning.
Teaching in Expeditionary Learning schools fosters curiosity about the world by creating learning situations that provide something important to think about, time to experiment, and time to make sense of what is observed.
Learning happens best with emotion, challenge and the requisite support. People discover their abilities, values, passions, and responsibilities in situations that offer adventure and the unexpected. In Expeditionary Learning schools, students undertake tasks that require perseverance, fitness, craftsmanship, imagination, self-discipline, and significant achievement. A teacher's primary task is to help students overcome their fears and [...]
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