Vision Values Montana Wilderness School
By experiencing challenging situations on a multi-week wilderness course, students will have opportunities to deal with a diverse group and different leadership styles, and the ability to communicate and collaborate with others to solve problems and accomplish objectives.
Headwaters Academy and Montana Wilderness School have long shared a belief that meaningful learning happens when young people are challenged, supported, and trusted to grow. While our programs differ in form, one rooted in academic inquiry, the other in expeditionary field experience, our values are deeply aligned: intellectual curiosity, leadership, responsibility, and connection to the world ...
Montana Wilderness School
Our values are to experience and celebrate public lands, wild spaces and wilderness areas; build student personal growth and develop character; creatively teach through experiential education and place-based learning; provide opportunities for technical skill competency; and create healthy communities by providing leadership and life skill building experiences; preparing youth to be successful ...
Laura believes in Montana Wilderness School's ability to instill exceptional values and immeasurable skills in its students, which they will carry with them for a lifetime.
Our Story Montana Wilderness School
Montana Wilderness School Montana Wilderness School continues to offer high-challenge, mentorship-based expeditions rooted in technical wilderness skills and personal leadership. MWS remains deeply committed to its field culture: small groups, experienced instructors, real terrain, and the belief that leadership is learned through responsibility, resilience, and presence in wild places.
Montana Wilderness School provides empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
FAQs Montana Wilderness School
Students will focus on one or two technical aspects (such as paddling, mountaineering or climbing), in addition to learning about decision-making, land conservation, leadership styles and Montana -based ecology. For information about the different stages of an expedition please visit our Expedition Life page under our Resources tab.
For more information on Montana Wilderness School programming, upcoming expeditions, making donations, or how you can help, visit montanawildernessschool.org.
Montana Wilderness School
The mission of the Montana Wilderness School is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places. Expedition Highlights Hiking in the remote Missouri River
The mission of the Montana Wilderness School is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.