Posts Tagged ‘teacher travel’
So, what’s your transformation story?
by Dr. Kelly Keena, Board President. I was sitting in the dark movie theatre watching Frozen 2 with my almost-adult daughter. The end scene is Olaf, a snowman made of two girls’ imaginations. And then, he articulated something I spend a lot of time thinking about. Perfectly. “While I still don’t know what transformation means,…
Read MoreWhy Morpho?
by Dr. Kelly Keena, Board President We sat in the green and white wooden Explorama boat nosed into the bank of a small tributary stream. The dense branches had a clearing and the equally dense brown water was still. The perfect place to fish for piraña. It’s a relatively simple process – stab a small…
Read MoreWhat did I learn from the Amazon?
Janet Ort, 2018 Educator Academy Scholar I have been to the rainforest many times: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, and of course the Peruvian rainforest almost 20 times. These trips span over 40 years of age, experience, and hopefully wisdom. Each time there is a primal sense of connection. My senses are overwhelmed by sound, light,…
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