Once upon a time, experiential education was the pedagogy. Many high-ranking nations for education today heavily center primary education around experience and play. Once academia became established in the U.S. as the primary method of learning for young people, however, desire arose to offer alternative means for learning skills inadequately covered in memorization-based classrooms. Some […]
Annalise Grueter
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Jury summons for Marble residents put them between a rock and hard place
For folks living in Marble, being part of Gunnison County is one of life’s little jokes. It is not always important, but every now and then, Marble residents have to face the reality that serving jury duty when called is nearly impossible.There’s an overblown joke that nobody likes jury duty; imagine having to drive several […]
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Breaking down barriers with experiential ed
I was a big nerd when I was a child through my teenage years. (Spoiler alert: I’m still a pretty big nerd now.) I enjoyed academic learning — from multiplication tables to practicing cursive to assigned reading, from Dr. Seuss in elementary school to Shakespeare and Solzhenitsyn in high school. When classmates were looking at […]