The twelfth cohort of graduate students earned their Masters in Education degrees through North Cascades Institute and Western Washington University this week. Dr. John Miles, Executive Director …
Read More of A Generosity of Spirit: Cohort 12 Graduates!
Though I moved to the Environmental Learning Center last August, I had visited many times before during my first summer while living in Bellingham as a graduate …
Read More of Gorging the Senses on Gorge Lake
The M.Ed program through Western Washington University and North Cascades Institute has several different parts to it. Though it evolves and changes every year, the general format …
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In the wintertime interim between teaching Mountain School in the fall and teaching Mountain School in the spring, graduate students in the North Cascades Institute Masters in …
Read More of Non-Profit Ninjas Slay the Behemoth
A small avalanche across Highway 20 just east of Newhalem at milepost 121 had residents of the Environmental Learning Center stuck at home Monday morning through Thursday …
Read More of The Snow and The Shining
Crewing on a commercial fishing boat during prime salmon season isn’t exactly conducive to writing a memoir. “No writing happens on the boat except on my arm,” …
Read More of Hooked!: Saying Farewell to Our New Friend Tele Aadsen
Columbia Elementary School was already told once they couldn’t come to Mountain School as planned. So they certainly weren’t going to let the biggest local snowstorm of …
Read More of Mountain School is ON!: Playing in the Snow, Compensating for the Government Shutdown
There’s a t-shirt that proclaims, “SAVE THE HUMANS.” It’s usually accompanied by an image of a cartoon whale, or maybe a panda bear. Have you seen it? …
Read More of Holy Gaia! I've Been Saved!: The Nature of Education and Vice Versa
Five pairs of fifth graders are scattered on the Buster Brown Trail. In each pair, one is blindfolded with a colorful bandana, being carefully – the teacher …
Read More of Make a Love Connection: Biophilia in the North Cascades
North Cascade Institute’s graduate Cohort 13 recently hosted our annual Instructor Exchange with other students and teachers from IslandWood and the Wilderness Awareness School. As part of …
Read More of On the Lookout for Unalloyed Pleasure: Poets in the North Cascades circa 1950s
