Edith Bowen Elementary

Each snowflake individually seems insignificant, but together, relentless by the millions, snow crystals pile up. They cover the ground, flock the trees, and settle into the gaps of my jacket. Their strength is in their numbers and their ability to bond with each other.

I lost a beloved friend and mentor two weeks ago in a fluke canyoneering accident in Zion National Park.

“Everyone, look! The hawk came to say goodbye!”

Indigenous people across the planet constructed monuments marking the sun's position on the solstices and equinoxes — the pyramids of Egypt, the moai on Rapa Nui, the temples of Chichén Itzá, and more.

When I first became interested in using Utah birds as a core theme for teaching my 2nd-graders I had no idea how it would revolutionize my teaching career and connect me and my students with so many different natural and human communities.

When you take kids to learn outdoors, what is the right balance between academic focus and student-exploration and how can the instructor support such a balance?

I've visited Blacksmith Fork Canyon with a thousand or so fifth and sixth graders — a few at a time — for a day with biologists and managers. Each time, we feed wintering elk about 5,000 pounds of hay.

As a wise outdoor educator, Eric Newell, once told me “Never be too busy outdoors to stop and experience something that excites the kids.”

Outdoor programs give purpose to learning—making the state curriculum a means rather than an end.

Each year, the Cache Valley Transit District partners with local schools to bring children’s art into community spaces. The newest Art in Transit bus was recently unveiled at Logan’s Summerfest.