By Amy M. Peters, Planet Contributor In spite of the pandemic, the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) remains committed to experiential and travel-based learning. Where annual fall trips center on outdoor education and orientation, annual spring trips have a more cultural focus. This year all spring trips, which will be completed by June 1, are outdoors,Read more
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Since opening school on Sept. 1, the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) has conducted in-person learning for students in Montessori preschool through grade 12 without interruption. While there have been some school community members impacted by COVID-19, none of the virus has been detected in the school and therefore there’s been no shutdown to date. ReticentRead more
The Freeride Committee (FRC) at the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) took a trip last weekend to St. Paul Lodge near Red Mountain Pass, where they spent three days and two nights practicing avalanche education and safe backcountry skills. FRC is a terrain and avalanche awareness club available to skiers and snowboarders in grades 7-12 whoRead more
Kelsey Brax visited Galapagos for research, presented workshop in Hawaii By Amy M. Peters, Planet Contributor Telluride Mountain School (TMS) upper school math teacher Kelsey Brax traveled to the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Thursday to present during a three-day national social justice conference, where STEM educators from across the United States are exploringRead more
Local student patents invention Telluride Mountain School’s Genius Hour fosters creative ideas The definition of the word “genius” is “exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability,” which is exactly what the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) aims to foster during its Genius Hour, a creative science block built into the school schedule for studentsRead more
A group of fifth- and sixth-grade students from the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) received unanimous approval two years ago from the Telluride Open Space Commission to construct and place five nesting-boxes across the Valley Floor to collect data about the American kestrel, a long-tailed falcon whose population has been steadily declining since the 1960s. TMSRead more
Earlier this month, 23 seventh and eighth graders from the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) embarked on a 12-day trip through Georgia and Alabama where they visited major sites of the civil rights movement, a key component of their history curriculum. Four teachers led and planned the trip: Jesse McTigue, director of curriculum and instruction andRead more
A cornerstone of the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) curriculum is the experiential education program. Where fall experiential trips are outdoor education-based, spring trips are curriculum-based to inform via travel and experience elements learned in the classroom. Over the coming weeks, six groups of students, led by TMS teachers, will travel to domestic and international destinations.Read more
By AMY M. PETERS Planet Contributor This week the Telluride Mountain School (TMS) community gathered for its weekly all-school Monday morning meeting to view slide presentations of a seventh and eighth grade trip to Hawaii, a ninth and tenth grade trip to Puerto Rico and an eleventh and twelfth grade trip to Europe, all experientialRead more
Last year, TMS students Rosalee Walsh, Will Purcell, George Thorneycroft and Will Roberts entered a music competition with eTown, a nationally syndicated radio broadcast and events production company located in Boulder Colorado. The students were chosen alongside five other singer/songwriters to record an original piece over the summer. Here is Youth of Innocence, written byRead more
