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- EIN 81-0544729
- info@travelingschool.com
- (406) 586-3096
- P0 Box 7058 Bozeman MT 59771 USA
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Causes: Education, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: The Traveling School empowers young women academically, physically, and culturally through an experiential overseas high school semester.
Programs: The Traveling School offers teenage girls the opportunity to explore the world and themselves through academic, physical, and cultural challenges. This kind of transformative experience deepens ones awareness of the world, and cultivates both leadership skills and personal confidence, leading to intelligent, compassionate, and empowered women prepared to become leaders on any stage. The Traveling School inspires personal growth that in turn creates broader change in our local and global communities through the work these young women pursue. During our fall semester, 16 high school girls ages 15-18 and their four teachers explore southern Africa for 15 weeks. Rigorous experiential courses include: math, history, environmental science, english, physical education, and global studies. Custom-designed curriculum is based on the region of travel: Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Academics focus on the impact of apartheid on modern South Africa, wildlife biology, the implications of mining and contemporary issues of the region. As well, students engage in local communities, participate in community service, develop strong outdoor skills and build self-confidence and leadership skills.
Our spring semester travels to South America. Traveling school students immerse in Spanish language study throughout the semester, building conversational skills and confidence. Standards-based courses designed to examine the region include: math, history, environmental science, english, physical education, and global studies. Rigorous regional academics follow the course itinerary through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia with intensive focus on the Amazon rain forest, Machu Picchu and the Inca civilization, and contemporary politics. As well, students engage in local communities, participate in community service, develop strong outdoor skills and build self-confidence and leadership skills.