Live from the Student Climate Conservation Congress at the National Conservation Training Center, Pete Dominick interviewed Juan Martinez of the Children and Nature Network's Natural Leaders Network about Fresh Tracks - a new outdoor leadership program connecting youth from Compton, CA and Arctic Circle, Alaska. Visit www.islandwood.org/freshtracks or www.freshtracks.tumblr.com for more information.


Juan Martinez interview with Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Get to know our adventurous Catie Clune as she takes us owling through IslandWood’s Mist Net north and south trails. More at our EEC blog: http://islandwoodeec.blogspot.com/2012/05/our-adventurous-catie-clune-takes-us.html

Get to Know a Grad: Catie Clune

Audio postcard from a member of Team Rain

A second audio postcard from a member of Team Rain

Caitlin Bunnell gives us a tour of IslandWood's floating classroom and reflects about her teaching at IslandWood.

Get to Know a Grad: Caitlin Bunnell

Eboni Cooper takes you to the IslandWood Art Studio wild zone and reflects on her teaching this past year.

Get to Know a Grad: Eboni Cooper

Mashawn Butler takes us to her sitting spot on IslandWood's campus: the beloved Marsh Loop Trail. 

Get to Know a Grad: Mashawn Butler

Melaney Mayne gives you a tour of IslandWood's Bog Treehouse, reflects on her teaching this past year, and sings you a West African welcome song. 

Get to Know a Grad: Melaney Mayne

http://voicesislandwood.blogspot.com/ 
Just one in four children of migrant workers meets state science standards in eighth grade, far below the population as a whole. The gap in math is nearly as wide.

Now, state education officials have organized a new learning camp for migrant students aimed at connecting work in the fields with work in the classroom.

Almost 50 students from across the state recently attended the first of these week-long camps, based at IslandWood, a learning center and preserve on Bainbridge Island. They dug into the science of what their parents (and often the students themselves) do for a living, growing and harvesting plants. 

They also tracked radio-collared owls, counted tree rings and studied tide pools. Instructors say they’re trying to reflect nature back to these students – who after all, are growing up around the fields, forests and fisheries of Washington State – in a new light.

In the process they hope to dignify the farm work by putting it in a scientific context, and to recast nature as more than just a livelihood, but also as a classroom where children are invited to dig a little deeper.

by Gabriel Spitzer at KPLU http://www.kplu.org/post/migrant-students-learn-science-farm-fields-and-classroom

IslandWood on KPLU

Thunder Crashing
Team Thunder and Joe Reilly and Allison Radell
Islandwood February 26th, 2013

Nature brings me back to life
We are a team with nature
Its beautiful and refreshing
It brings everyone together
The design of nature
The peacefulness of the woods
Stop and listen, its calm, the fresh air

Thunder crashing
Trees blowing
Its always changing
A stream is flowing
These surroundings make me feel good
We’re in the animals’ hood

Now you get to explore
Look up at the trees and wonder
How many trees there are in the world
When it rains it becomes sunny again
Its peaceful
I like watching the waterfall
And the rainbow shine, having a great time

Thunder crashing
Trees blowing
Its always changing
A stream is flowing
These surroundings make me feel good
We’re in the animals’ hood

I like watching water come off a big mountain top
It keeps on flowing I don’t think it will ever stop

Thunder crashing
Trees blowing
Its always changing
A stream is flowing
These surroundings make me feel good
We’re in the animals’ hood


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