Mountain School is the Institute’s 30-year-old flagship program. Students (predominantly 5th graders) travel deep into the North Cascades to spend three days in its ecosystem establishing a foundational relationship with the natural world—one we hope they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. The Mountain School curriculum has undergone multiple small adjustments since its inception 30 years ago. Since then, there have been significant changes to state learning standards, the world we live in, and how we bridge the two to help prepare young people for the dynamic world and global issues we face. Read More from “Re-envisioning the Future of Mountain School: Embracing Student-Centered Education”
Adventure Crew! Institute staff logged many miles on trails all around the North Cascades this month, with the dusty boots and sunburned ears to prove it. This … Read More of August 2020 Photo Round-Up!
I have been daydreaming about homesteading since I was a kid. Three years ago it happened; I was a couple years into my thirties, mid-career at the … Read More of The Kinship of Climbing and Farming
The Faces of North Cascades Institute July completed our fifth month of being dispersed from the Institute’s downvalley office and upriver Environmental Learning Center. While we’ve become … Read More of July 2020 Photo Round-Up!
What makes boats so charming, so timeless, and so convivial? Let us travel backward along the river of time to the late 1920’s when the Skagit River … Read More of Virtual Skagit Tours
This month’s call for photos was met with an enthusiastic response from Institute staff, sharing ample evidence that this group knows how to work hard and play … Read More of June 2020 Photo Round-up!
