Teton Science Schools
About
We Live Our Core Values
Inspiring curiosity, engagement and leadership through transformative place-based education.
Teton Science Schools strive towards a joy-filled, inspiring culture. We aspire for our community to learn and grow through transformative place-based education. These community values are the foundation of our daily intentional culture. They guide strategy and decision making long term.
Our values make who we are transparent for our employees, our participants, our supporters, and our community. By reflecting on our values every year, we measure our growth, aspirations, and successes as an organization and as individuals. If we are not living our values, we must change what we are doing.
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Programs
Teton Science Schools programs consist of Mountain Academy, Outdoor Learning Experiences, classroom education, Wildlife Expeditions, and educator development.
Our Values
Our community values are the foundation of our daily intentional culture and guide strategy and decision making long-term.
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Stewardship: We protect and show gratitude for places, people, community, and resources as we educate for a more vibrant world.
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Inclusivity: We welcome, learn from, and value diverse voices, perspectives, and historically excluded identities, and we act on what we learn together.
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Collaboration: We intentionally share, engage, and learn internally and with external partners to practice transformative place-based education and build community connections.
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Accountability: Together we take ownership of and achieve TSS’ mission, values, program, operational and financial goals, as well as our individual goals.
Innovation: As a community, we encourage and support creative problem solving and celebrate our successes and failures in order to keep learning and growing.
Teton Science Schools at a Glance
Our History
Ted Major, a science teacher, thought his students would best learn about the natural sciences out in nature. By immersing students in relatively undisturbed ecosystems, he felt they would gain a deep, lasting knowledge of the interconnection and interdependence of all life. In the summer of 1967, Ted began an experiment to expand the classroom into the outdoors. Twelve high school students spent six weeks working on research projects and taking field trips around the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Teton Science Schools was born.
Since then, Teton Science Schools has grown to encompass multiple program areas across four campuses that span both sides of the Tetons and beyond.
Our Commitment to DEI
Transformative place-based education can only be achieved through a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our commitment to DEI makes learning more engaging, relevant, impactful, and transferable. It also results in a more effective team of teachers and staff. Additionally, our efforts will make place-based education more accessible for teachers and learners.
