Alaska is one of the world’s last true wildernesses, a land of mountains, brown bears, salmon, and glaciers. Travel into its remotest regions to experience that wilderness firsthand, from flyfishing the sockeye salmon run to learning from native Alaskans, writers, and conservationists. Explore questions of climate change, indigeneity, and preservation.

Shades of the North is a hands-on learning expedition that immerses students in the world and ideas of the bear. Using the North Maine Woods wilderness as our classroom, students will learn directly from the bears that call this place home and from the people and organizations involved in managing, conserving, and celebrating this remarkable animal.

Catalyst is a 10-day backcountry caribou hunting expedition in Alaska’s Brooks Range for high school students seeking wildness, challenge, and deeper connection to land and self. Students acquire hunting skills while exploring the ethics, ecology, and spiritual contours of hunting in one of North America’s wildest places.

For seven days, a small cohort of educators will travel through the glaciers, black-sand coastline, and farmland of southeast Iceland, taking up one of the central challenges of twenty-first-century education: how to help young people encounter a changing world in ways that build knowledge, wonder, care, and the capacity to act.