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Serving upper elementary students, their teachers, and high school leaders from communities
in and around Puget Sound, the program includes extensive teacher training, selection and training of high school
student leaders, the 3-day/2-night “outdoor school” experience every Spring and Fall in the Baker Lake basin, and
classroom lessons to prepare for, and evaluate the program.
Base-camped at PSE’s Baker Lake Lodge, participants spend most daylight hours outdoors, in “nature’s classroom”.
The watershed-based curriculum revolves around multi-disciplinary field studies and includes:
This holistic approach to education not only gives students real-life perspective to their studies, but also
encourages caring and empathy for the environment and for each other. Our hope is that those participating will
integrate their KKOS studies with learning throughout their lives, becoming responsible and caring stewards of the
places they call home.
The success of this new, educational project is due to the innovation, creativity, talents, and dedication of a
number of organizations, agencies, and individuals. Sponsored by C.A.R.E. (Community Arts, Recreation, and Education
coalition), and supported by Puget Sound Energy (PSE), University of Washington’s MESA program, Puget Sound area
schools, and local businesses and community members, the Baker River watershed has become a model for experiential
education offering affordable programs to previously under-served schools in the region.
Late afternoons (and early mornings) find students helping to cook, serve, and clean-up
community meals, while evenings are enjoyed around the campfire. Music, story-telling, and original, dramatic
productions entertain and educate until bedtime.
- Concrete School District: Elementary & Middle School and Skagit River School House
- Sedro-Woolley School District: Big Lake, Central, Clear Lake, Evergreen, Lyman, Mary Purcell, Samish & Sedro-Woolley Homeschool Partnership
- Mount Baker School District: Acme Elementary & Mt. Baker Academy
- Anacortes School District: Anacortes Home Education Partnership and Mt. Erie Elementary
To learn more about the Komo Kulshan Outdoor School,
please contact the KKOS Program Director:
Christie Fairchild
360-853-8388 (home)
info@komokulshanoutdoorschool.org
K.K.O.S., P.O. Box 842, Concrete, WA. 98237
KKOS staff: Jeannine Wallach, Katie Gell, Annie Stilts and Christie Fairchild
K.K.O.S. is a project of C.A.R.E., which is a member of S.E.E. (Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs), a tax-deductible, non-profit, 501.c3