Month: February 2019

Many enthusiastic educators, says Chewonki Team Development Coordinator Shelly Gibson, “tend to think of experiential education as synonymous with outdoor adventure.” Four days with 149 colleagues from around North America at the Independent Schools Experiential Education Network (ISEEN) Winter Institute reinforced for her that experiential education can happen anywhere, indoors and outdoors, on mountaintops and …

Beyond Borders: Experiential Education Through the Lens of Equity and Justice. Read More »

It’s 5 degrees under a blue sky and the 41 new students of Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki are digging in. They have only been here 10 days but they are starting to look right at home. They know where to eat, take a shower, compost, and find their classes (“Where’s the Fish Bowl?”). They …

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Seventh-graders from the Elementary School at Chewonki, along with their teacher and several other Chewonki staff, ventured 135 miles north last week to camp for three nights and four days at Big Wood Pond in Jackman, Maine. The beauty was breathtaking and so, at times, was the temperature, which ranged from 20℉ to -20℉, with …

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Last week our students from Maine Coast Semester 62 took to the woods & wilds of Maine for a mid-winter adventure. We split into five teams to visit these remarkable destinations: Woodcove on Big Wood Pond, Haskell Hut in the Katadhin Woods & Waters National Monument, Lonesome Lake Hut via Appalachian Mountain Club, and Poplar Hut and Stratton Brook …

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