How We See The World

Experiential learning through travel is an integral part of the Open School program. Travel provides an excellent learning opportunity in the real world and often proves to be a turning point in a student’s life. The objectives of the travel program include re-discovering the joy of learning, establishing trust in self, others, and the school community, creating ownership of school and one’s actions, and reaffirming self esteem.
Note: Throughout the Open School program trips are required. Required trips include: ELC and IA Advising Trips, Foundations Beginnings Trip, LEAP Trip, Wilderness Trip, and one additional extended trip at both the Foundations and Walkabout level.

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2023-2024

  • Belize Zoo Service Trip
  • Bike Packing 
  • Boundary Waters
  • Divided We Fall - Washington D.C.
  • Fiber Arts Trip
  • Flea, Fly, Flow - Moab, UT
  • Foundations Leadership - Colorado Springs, CO
  • France
  • Gila Monsters Backpacking - Gila Wilderness, NM
  • Landscape Painting - Northern New Mexico
  • Marine Biology - Catalina Island, CA
  • Miss Understood Trip - Moab, UT
  • New York City
  • Pine Ridge Service Trip
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Public Lands - Grand Junction, CO
  • Space Camp - Cosmosphere in Kansas
  • Total Eclipse Trip - San Antonio, TX
  • Winter Hut Trip

2022-2023

  • Backpacking Photography
  • Borders Trip
  • Boundary Waters
  • Canyons - Utah
  • Costa Rica Sustainability Trip
  • Holocaust Class Trip - Washington D.C.
  • Llamas
  • Bentonville Mountain Bike Trip
  • Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Outdoor Watercolor - Northern New Mexico
  • Surf Trip - California
  • Pine Ridge Service Trip
  • Pittsburgh
  • Prairie Dog Trip - South Dakota
  • Road Trip
  • The Mars Project to The Great Sand Dunes
  • Winter Hut Trip

2021-2022

  • Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
  • Boundary Waters
  • Camp Amache
  • Charm City - Baltimore Art & Culture
  • Finding Bigfoot
  • Let's Ride Mountain Bike Trip
  • Outdoor Watercolor - Northern New Mexico
  • Pine Ridge Service Trip
  • Road Trippin - California
  • Salem Witches - Massachusetts 
  • Salish Seas - San Juan Islands
  • Serving Mama Earth
  • Wild & Scenic Rivers - Big Bend National Park
  • Winter Hut Trip

2019-2020


2018-2019

 


 

2017-2018


2016-2017

2015-2016

  • Canyons Trip
  • Marine Biology - Puerto Rico
  • LA Art Trip - CA
  • Salem's Witches - Salem, MA
  • Archaeology - Four Corners
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Interview With The Vampire Trip - New Orleans, LA
  • Immigration and Border Issues Trip
  • Snow Science Trip - Leadville, CO
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Robotics Trip - Pleasanton, CA
  • Watercolors Trip - Northern New Mexico
  • Apples Trip - Paonia, CO
  • Readers and Writers Retreat - Buena Vista, CO
  • Lewis and Clark Trip - Bozeman, MT
  • Boundary Waters
  • Delta Paddle Trip - Alabama
  • Pine Ridge Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota

2014-2015

  • Archaeology - Four Corners
  • Battle Bots - San Mateo, CA
  • Bioneers - San Francisco, CA
  • College Trip - Southern CO
  • Fierce Females - Breckenridge, CO
  • Germany
  • Glacier National Park - Montana
  • Outdoor Water Color Trip - New Mexico
  • Reader Writer's Retreat - Fraser, CO
  • Thespian Conference - Denver
  • Treasure Hunters - Northern New Mexico
  • Voting Rights Trip - Topeka, KS- Selma, AL


2013-2014

  • Alaska
  • Archaeology - Four Corners
  • Bioneers - San Francisco, CA
  • Boundary Waters 
  • Down River - Colorado River, Utah
  • Estes Park - CO
  • Glenwood Springs, CO
  • Tallahassee, FL
  • LA Art Trip
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Nicaragua
  • Paris, France
  • Pine Ride Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
  • Conspiracy Theory - San Luis Valley, New Mexico
  • Sundance Film Festival - Utah
  • Water Color Trip - New Mexico
  • Winter Park, CO


2012-2013
  • Archaeology - Four Corners
  • Surf Trip - Dana Point, CA
  • Mountain Biking Trip - Moab, UT
  • Nola - New Orleans, LA
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Nicaragua
  • Sundance Film Festival - Park City, UT
  • Harvard - Cambridge, MA
  • Marine Biology - Mexico
  • Swap Science - Walden, CO
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Pine Ridge Reservation Service Trip -  South Dakota
  • Fierce Female - Breckenridge, CO


2011-2012 
  • Archaeology - Four Corners
  • Bioneers - San Rafael,CA
  • Outdoor Watercolors - Taos, NM
  • Costa Rica and Nicaragua
  • Tallahasee, Fl
  • Civil Rights - Birmingham, AL
  • Chicago Improv - Chicago, IL
  • Belize
  • Germany
  • LA Art Trip - Los Angeles, CA
  • Meditation Class - Crestone, CO
  • Readers and Writers Retreat - Gardner, CO
  • Pine Ride Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
  • Pirates, Poltergeist, Palm Trees - Key West, FL
  • John Muir Trip - Yosemite/San Francisco, CA


2010-2011
  • Surf Trip - Dana Point, CA
  • Archaeology - Four Corners
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Outdoor Watercolors - Northern New Mexico
  • Lake Powell, UT
  • Guatemala
  • Tallahassee, FL
  • NOLA - Now Orleans, LA
  • NASA - Orlando, FL
  • Sundance Film Fest - Park City, UT
  • Pine Ridge Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
  • Puerto Rico
  • Battle Bots - Fort Lauderdale, FL 
  • Ireland
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