The Outdoor School Blog
Making Screen Time Meaningful
Making Screen Time Meaningful with The Outdoor School -Miranda Crosby, Program Coordinator In a world of constant screens, it is easy to find ourselves wrapped up in them. Mindlessly scrolling through Instagram, engaging in Facebook posts, watching 5 seasons of your favorite Netflix show in…
Introducing The Barnyard Animals
A Barnyard Welcome by Alex Hardison Howdy, y’all! We have some big news for all animal lovers planning a trip to The Outdoor School! TOS has some new fuzzy farm friends on camp and we would love for you to help us welcome them…
Styles of Play
In the pursuit of creating the best program for our schools, we at The Outdoor School make an intentional effort to utilize various styles of play in our activities. For those that aren’t experts at playing like our staff, you might wonder what different…
Teacher Thoughts part 2
For the second edition of Teacher Thoughts, we get to hear from Sarah Robenhorst, a 5th-grade mathematics teacher at Guerrero Thompson Elementary in Austin. See below for her thoughts on taking field trips to The Outdoor School. TOS: What is your favorite part of the…
Introducing our Program Coordinators
With The Outdoor School’s spring season just around the corner, it’s time to introduce everyone to our program coordinator team. Program Coordinators (PCs) work with our visiting schools and retreat groups to plan all the amazing field trips and events scheduled for this season. PCs…
A Teacher’s Thoughts on The Outdoor School
Today’s blog is the first post in a new feature, “Teacher Thoughts.” This edition of Teacher’s Thoughts features Kameron Koeffler, 5th Grade ELA & S.S teacher at University of Texas Elementary School in Austin. We asked Kameron a few questions about why he looks forward…
Highlights from the first half of the Fall ’21 season.
While it seems like the fall season’s staff training started only a short time ago, we are actually already halfway through our season. Having school groups back at camp has been great. The last activity that student’s participate in at TOS is called closure. During…
Remembering 9/11
There are a few events that happen in a person’s life that are so significant that time seems to stop. Every detail of the moment is forever burned into our brains so that we can remember what outfit we had on, what the adrenaline rush felt…
How both students and staff grow socially at The Outdoor School
At the Outdoor School the “why” is a very important part of our curriculum and culture – this is where most organizations derive their values, philosophies, and especially their programing. Perhaps the most important “why” within any organization is why team members choose to put…
Meet The Staff: Sales and Marketing Director Rob Letendre
How long have your worked for TOS? I started as an instructor in the Spring of 2010. I enjoyed it so much I stayed for 4 more seasons. 2 more as an instructor, then 2 as a Program Coordinator. In 2013 I came back…
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