Travels of a Ranger Librarian

Up above the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park, Canada.

Enjoying the view in Glacier National Park, Canada.

National Parks: 
                   an education 

Every April I spend time on bringing the National Parks into my classroom. My "classroom" is the school library, but it is a classroom nonetheless. We examine artifacts I have acquired in my travels: a rabbit pelt, rocks, the infamous flat hat; as well as pictures and plenty of books. The school I currently work in is diverse in all manner of demographics: socioeconomics, ethnicity, special education, and emergent bilingual. I teach them, and they teach me. Together we find the way.

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Original photography taken at the following locations: 
Jackson Hole, Wyoming; 
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; 
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; 
Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico; 
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico; 
Glacier National Park, Montana; 
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; 
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado; 
Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York Harbor; 
Monument Valley Tribal Park, Utah; 
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado; 
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; 
Hubbell Trading Post Historic Site, Arizona; 
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (Flickr slideshow)