Mountain!!! School!! Stories!
Though Mountain School has been on hold for the past two weeks due to the government shutdown, instructors did get to teach three weeks of it, which …
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Graduate M.Ed. Program
Park Creek Pass: A Tale of Two Hikes
It was early August, and time for the end-of-quarter North Cascades backpacking adventure for the new graduate students, collectively called “Cohort 13.” At 12 people, plus two …
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The Power of Place-tience
Patience has never been a personal strongpoint. As a result, I’ve yet to indulge in the rumored joys of birdwatching, and have only recently begun to grasp …
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Saying goodbye…for now
Today is my last day of living at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center—my home since the spring of 2010 when I started working for North Cascades …
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Coming full circle
After graduating from North Cascade Institute’s M.Ed. program I began working for the Cowlitz Valley Ranger district as an Invasive Plant Technician. It was really just a …
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From North Cascades Institute to the Montana Natural History Center
What have I been doing since graduating from the North Cascades Institute M.Ed program in 2003? A lot. As it turns out, in a small non profit, …
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Learning to teach through the "what if…?s"
On my first teaching day of fall Mountain School I was terrified. I was completely smitten with the amazing North Cascades ecosystem I’d just spent all summer …
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Welcoming cohort 13 to the Institute family
I got the opportunity to meet our newest cohort of graduate students on their first day of class last month and was able to spend some time …
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Searching for the dream
I work in a room with no windows. All day I watch the refracted light from the skylight, which is made from those swirly glass blocks, dance …
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Seasonal transitions for a graduate student
Right now the Learning Center is transitioning from spring into summer, though the weather might not always show it. All of the graduate students in cohort 12, …
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