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Biocitizen welcomes Samuel Rode, Our Place teacher!!
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Samuel Rode to the Our Place Summerschool senior staff! Samuel is a W Mass native (Heath) who attends the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst, majoring in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Conservation. An avid trail runner, rock climber, hiker, kayaker, and skier, he’s worked as a camp counselor, zip…
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“Why I want to be a CIT”
Hard to believe but Biocitizen is 10 years old now! One of the deepest joys I (Kurt the director) have experienced is derived from witnessing our students develop from little kids, into adolescents and then into young adults. The school’s CIT program and our junior staff is made of Wings who became Sharpshins and then…
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Our Place Counselor-In-Training Program 2017
Our Place Counselor In Training Program Position: A CIT will assist the adult staff for one week of camp (5 6-hour days; and will have 1 additional on-the-job training day before the session they are CIT-ing). Much of CIT’s work will involve serving the minor needs of staff while they are preoccupied with group activities; for…
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Our Place Summer School 2017
Our Place Summer School is designed to “unplug” your child by bringing them into direct contact with the creatures, geologies, hydrologies and infrastructures of the Nonotuck biome and the Westfield River watershed. For five six-hour days, we roam our place—the valley and the hilltowns—investigating our natural and cultural history with all of our senses, and…
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Wings: Our Place Summercamp for 6-10 year olds
If you’ve never seen a butterfly or dragonfly spread its wings for the first time, you’ll amazed to see how sensitive those first unfurling moments are. And if you have seen it, you know that moment happens only once in a lifetime; for as soon as they can, they fly away on those wings. Biocitizen’s…
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The Land Organism: Teacher Training in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic
We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. —Aldo Leopold THE Problem: We are experiencing a paradigm shift precipitated by anthrogenic global warming. Many of the things we have been taught and teach need to be reassessed, re-understood and revised—around the pressing fact that our present way of living is out of synch with the…
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Our Place Summer School Teacher In Training Program 2017
Summer School Teacher In Training Program Position: A teacher in training will assist the adult staff for one week of school (5, 6-hour days) in either the Wings or Sharpshins programs. This year the staff will consist of an assistant director, a teacher, and the teacher trainee, who will assume the position of third in…
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Our Place Summercamp 2014
Our Place Summercamp is designed to “unplug” your child by bringing them into direct contact with the creatures, geologies, hydrologies and infrastructures of the Nonotuck biome and the Westfield River watershed. For five six-hour days, we roam the valley and the hilltowns, investigating our natural and cultural history with all of our senses, and enjoying…
