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Alison Martin (’18) Incorporates Indigenous Stewardship Knowledge and Methodologies to Foster Inclusive Teaching

Alison Martin’s father built a cabin in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in a small town called Nevada City, CA.

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Andy Tran

“Engineering is all imagination,” says Andy Tran. “I had a lot of it as a kid growing up. My imagination is very vivid, vivid to the point where I would dream about what I [had imagined during the day].”

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Keiko Budech

If you look at the leaves of the salmonberry, a plant that thrives in the forests of IslandWood, you’ll notice the serrated edge of the leaves.

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Tiffany Chan

The first time Tiffany Chan came to IslandWood she was a ten-year-old girl from Wing Luke Elementary taking part in the School Overnight Program (SOP).

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Nick Balera

The container was not much bigger than a tuna fish can, recalls Nick Balera. It was metal and rusted shut.

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Zainab Mohammed, and Zaidaan and Ilham Shibuya

Sending a child on an overnight school experience is hard for many parents. But for some families, religious or cultural considerations make the decision that much more difficult.

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Rico Jose

Rico and his classmates followed a trail through the forest and across a meadow to reach the lodge where they would sleep four to a room and relax with friends around a grand, stone fireplace.

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School Overnight Program Alumni Spotlight: Kari Adamski

“Wow!” Kari remembers thinking as she entered the Great Hall at IslandWood as part of the School Overnight Program.

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IslandWood acknowledges that we live and work on the ancestral land of the Coast Salish people, who have been stewards of this region's land and waters since time immemorial, and who continue to protect these lands and waters for future generations, as promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855, the Treaty of Point No Point of 1855, and the Treaty of Medicine Creek of 1854.

While the majority of our work takes place on Suquamish (suq̀ʷabš) and Duwamish (dxʷdɐwʔabʃ) land, we also conduct programs on the land of the Snohomish (sduhúbʃ), Puyallup (spuyaləpabš), Muckleshoot (buklshuhls), Skokomish (sqoqc’bes), and S’Klallam (nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm) peoples.

IslandWood is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Our tax ID number is 31-1654076.

4450 Blakely Ave. NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 206.855.4300