Trackers PDX Blog

Local parent and blogger, Vince Schreck recently wrote an article about his son's adventures at Trackers Camp. We were so excited to see this, thus we made him our guest blogger for this week. TrackersPDX Summer Campby Vince Schreck Ed.D What’s to Love:  I was just at a conference on teaching and learning in Chicago, IL (July, 2010). The keynote speech had a profound and urgent message. The message was that “play,” not as a concept, but an actual act,  especially imaginative/creative…

Our culture is wrapped around the individual's pursuit of happiness or self-esteem. "Am I the best me I can be?" "Make me better." "My iPhone makes me happy (I jest as I type on my iPhone)." Yet throughout the majority of human history the question always was, "Am I useful to the tribe or village?" So often I see people somewhere in their…

This December will bring a son into Molly's and my family. For all my pomp and bluster about raising children with values of connection to land and family, I definitely realize that working with nearly 24,000 kids over the past 17 years may be quite different than raising my own for the next 18. One of the issues I now spend a great deal…

An indomitable spirit is a survival tool few people understand, including teachers of wilderness skills. It's often confused with the hubris of dominance. Yet an indomitable spirit has more to do with listening, learning and faith that the land will care for you. To quote Miyamoto Musashi, one of the greatest swordsmen that ever lived...…