ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 1972 Bayside Academy and Pine Mountain Settlement School

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 13: EDUCATION
Series 22: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Bayside Academy
Pine Mountain Settlement School

EE Staff. [left to right] Scott Matthies, Mary Rogers, Afton Garrison, [?], Cami Hamilton (Dalton), David Siegenthaler (Director). c. 1980 & 1981. [X_100_workers_2604_mod.jpg]

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Bayside Academy and Pine Mountain Settlement School

TAGS: environmental education Bayside Academy, Pine Mountain Settlement School, programs, outdoor education, Ben Begley, Afton Garrison, Mary Rogers, David Siegenthaler, Cami Hamilton Dalton, Scott Mattheis, Paul Rider, Matt Boggs, video production, videotapes, multimedia production

FRIENDS OF LONG STANDING

Pine Mountain maintains relationships with many schools, both public and private, in the southeast. One particularly rich experience for Pine Mountain has been the over thirty-year relationship with Bayside Academy in Dauphne, Alabama, on Mobile Bay. Bayside has brought students to Pine mountain for a variety of hands-on learning experiences. It has also generously contributed to the Pine Mountain by providing much-needed tools, and gifts that have benefited many other school groups visiting the institution in Kentucky. Bayside’s relationship with Pine Mountain is truly an interactive program. Their visits have left the school with several important videos that document the Environmental Education program as well as capturing some of the important staff who have worked at the school. The records that Bayside made of their visits are unique archival records of the changes in programming over the years and of the changes in staff at the School and at Bayside.

Pine Mountain Settlement school has hosted groups from Bayside from the late 1980s through the 2000s. Many of the visits and the projects and programs experienced by Bayside while at Pine Mountain have been captured on video by the students and the staff of the Alabama school as part of the institution’s educational experience. These videos were used to develop later educational experiences at the school in Alabama and in the following years as the groups returned to Pine Mountain.

VIDEO RECORD

These cooperative videos captured by Bayside students, demonstrate the versatile and unique programming available at Pine Mountain and its impact on the students and staff. The videos ably show students engaged in craft projects, hands-on environmental education programs, music, and dance events. Bayside Academy’s student interaction with the eastern Kentucky environment and with regional Appalachian culture and crafts, is also captured through the relational videos. Whether an oral history, a scenic view, or a specific activity, the Bayside videos capture the essence of Pine Mountain Settlement as place and people as seen through the eyes of a visitor to the school.

Videos produced by the students and staff of Bayside have been placed online on YouTube by Bayside Academy:

VIDEO OF BAYSIDE ACADEMY EXPERIENCE AT PINE MOUNTAIN 2019

VIDEO OF BAYSIDE ACADEMY EXPERIENCE AT PINE MOUNTAIN 2016

VIDEO OF BAYSIDE ACADEMY EXPERIENCE AT PINE MOUNTAIN 2008

The Bayside Academy is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school that brings together a residential student body of some 730 students ranging in age from PK to 12th grade. Bayside is Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, Southern Association of Independent Schools, Alabama Association of Independent Schools, National Association for College Admission Counseling, and Southern Association for College Admission Counseling, Educational Records Bureau, College Board, and Independent School Management Consortium.

To further explore Bayside, see: http://www.baysideacademy.org/snapshot#sthash.U4oCgwRF.dpuf

Bayside has been particularly generous in its gifts to the school The instructional white-board donated by the school has been a critical tool in being able to integrate digital learning with hands-on activities. The digital resources shared through the white-board have helped to integrate the indoor and outdoor classrooms and encourage continued learning online. A particularly valuable gift from Bayside included videotapes made of the staff and of the school. The biographical content of the video-audio tapes captures the environmental education program (EE) in its early years as it was developing its curricula under the guidance of Mary Rogers, Ben Begley, and Afton Garrison, the key educators in the early EE program.

Mary Rogers working with Environmental Education program at Pine Mountain. X_100_workers_2669_mod.jpg

The Bayside visits are very interactive, as the staff from Bayside and the Pine Mountain staff coordinate the learning objectives of the visit. The two schools always learn from each other while providing the students with a rich cultural and environmental program.

Other VIDEO TAPES collected by Pine Mountain and created by Bayside Academy and Pine Mountain during over thirty years of their relationship include the following:

1. Spinning and Weaving and Arthur Johnson [Christmas at Pine Mountain]

2. Arthur Johnson [A blind musician versed in Appalachian music plays guitar and harmonica and dulcimer for Bayside students.]

3. Afton Garrison interview

4. Mary Rogers, Ben Begley and Afton Garrison, interviews.

Another Bayside relationship can be found in Paul Rider, a parent who has been a special friend of PMSS since his son Paul came to Pine Mountain Settlement while a student at Bayside. Both father and son liked the School and the area so much that Paul. Sr. purchased property near the School and participated in the School’s woodworking classes taught by Matt Boggs for many years. The broad-reaching and long-lasting friendships that Pine Mountain has spawned are many and deeply appreciated by the School, Trustees, and Staff.