November 29th, 2010 | by Jill Sisson Quinn | published in Best of Engage WI, Engage WI, Sustainable Wisconsin, Your Stories
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother,” Albert Einstein claimed. It’s true that the best way to really learn about a topic is to teach it to someone else. And that is just what my students in the Wisconsin River Academy will be doing at the Boston School Forest throughout the winter, and, I hope, for the rest of their lives.
November 14th, 2010 | by Jill Sisson Quinn | published in Best of Engage WI, Engage WI, Sustainable Wisconsin, Your Stories
Jill Sisson Quinn and the Wisconsin River Academy: “Once a year, my students become animals. They are designated as carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores, identifiable by a red, blue or green arm-band, in a large-group simulation game called Web of Life, which I first played as a 6th-grader myself at Camp Hashawa in Westminster, Maryland…”
November 7th, 2010 | by Jill Sisson Quinn | published in Engage WI, Sustainable Wisconsin, Your Stories
It’s drizzling, but that doesn’t stop us. I hand the key to Brad, who unlocks the shed and pulls out the first tandem bike with helmet dangling from each set of handlebars. As the students arrive for class, bikes are selected and lined up with their front tires touching the edge of the parking lot.
October 31st, 2010 | by Jill Sisson Quinn | published in Best of Engage WI, Engage WI, Sustainable Wisconsin, Your Stories
Follow Steven’s Point English teacher Jill Sisson Quinn and her students as they mix woods and words over the next several weeks. Nature writer and poet Quinn recently published Deranged: Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan, a meditation on nature and reflections on life after she moved to Wisconsin.
