Alumni Spotlight: A Pivotal Experience
By Rachel Fry, Former Island School Semester Faculty When I look back at my time working at The Island School Semester, I see it as a pivotal experience that directed…
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STAFF SPOTLIGHT: OLIVIA GELL
Name: Olivia Gell Where are you from? New York Where were you before this? I was studying at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania What brought you to The…
The End of an Era
Yesterday marked an end of an era at The Island School with the departure of the one and only David Miller. David came to The Island School three years ago…
Diving In
If you distill all the rules and protocols of scuba diving, there is one fundamental principle: breathe. Perhaps this seems redundant. On land, the physiological process of taking air into…
Free-diving with a Loggerhead
I wrote this when we got back from an early morning free-dive last Wednesday. A rare pleasure. “This morning I dived with a loggerhead. The turtle was missing a chunk…
What is Education for?
“The truth is that many things on which our future health and prosperity depend are in dire jeapordy: climate stability, the resilience and productivity of natural sustems, the beauty of…
Learning Underwater…
[flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/islandschool/4422636672/ show_info=no] Students breathing bubbles at Tunnel Rock