For the North Cascades Institute’s 14th cohort of Graduate M.Ed. students, it was a year marked with adventure, struggle, triumph and togetherness. Our cohort is a very …
Read More of Transition Trek 2015: At the Confluence of the Graduate Residency and Campus Programs
Woke up at 0555 to a pack of coyotes (Canis latrans) howling and barking in a playful manner with one another for about ten minutes. During this …
Read More of Beavers and Hawks: Graduate Fall Retreat Seminar 2015
Hot. Dry. Dusty. A perfect description for the Methow Valley, an area currently in a severe drought. So it was rather surprising then when the new graduate …
Read More of Classroom in Bloom: Growing the locavores of tomorrow
For the members of Cohort 14, everything is starting to come full circle. The Learning Center looks as it looked when we arrived last July: Pyramid’s faces …
Read More of The Trifecta: C14's Last Natural History Retreat
One of the pillars of North Cascade Institute and Western Washington University’s M.Ed. graduate program is a “sense of place.” This can be hard to define, but …
Read More of Uplift: Youth in Action for the Colorado Plateau
Fifteen year after attending North Cascades Institute’s Mountain School at Newhalem, Emma Ewert is coming full circle. This fall, she will join our fifteenth cohort in the …
Read More of Path for Youth: Emma Ewert
Time has a variable quality when you live in the mountains. Spring can descend on you with no warning, like it happened overnight, but a day can …
Read More of Passing the Paddle: Cohort 13 Graduation
“I have looked back on that time over and over again as one of the most informative times of my life.” Lauren Marziliano reflects on her experience …
Read More of Profile of a Graduate M.Ed. Student: Lauren Marziliano
One of the highlights of this my time in this graduate program so far (seven months!) has been our seasonal natural history retreats. In the fall, Cohort 14 …
Read More of Chasing Winter: A Natural History Retreat
by Rachel Gugich, M.Ed. Graduate Student “The point at which two or more things are connected, A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or …
Read More of Connections in the North Cascades
