“Learning happens best with emotion, challenge and requisite support. People discover their abilities, values, “grand passions,” and responsibilities in situations that offer adventure and a bit of the unexpected.”    

          -Emily Cousins, Reflections on Design Principles, Outward Bound

Welcome to Expeditionary Learning and Teaching in the Schools, our Spring 2020 Fieldwork course for VMI cadets. This term we’ll be blogging about our experiences working with local students in Rockbridge County, VA on models for project-based, learning investigations, and sharing our own designs for interdisciplinary inquiries.

If you’re visiting the site for the first time, please enjoy scrolling over our cadet teaching portfolios under the 2020 School Inquiries tab, or peruse our VMI Student Field Journal for insights from their semester in Rockbridge County schools. Unfortunately, the recent pandemic cut our partnerships short, but we are very thankful for the time given to see how local teaching and learning is flourishing through hard work in Rockbridge County.