Good work for goodness sake

Hello friends,
I recently got word of a short work opportunity that I though would be of interest to some, if not many of the people that share the goodness collective connection. A friend Valerie from Portland will be leading a group of Waldorf highs chool students on a backpacking/wilderness trip. She is looking for a co-leader for the week-long trip in September. Below is her description and contact info. Hope this lands on happy ears.
blessings,
Aaron

As part of our high school curriculum (Portland Waldorf School), we take each grade (9th-12th) on an outdoor experience for a week of school. The goals of our wilderness curriculum and field experience are to:

1) help students explore the ecological/economic implications of our use of natural resources and examine whether these pathways are healthy and sustainable,
2) Engender in students a sense of responsibility toward our natural resources,
3) help students gain an appreciation of the nature of reciprocity - i.e. how we affect the natural world and how it affects us,
4) Give students tools with which they can examine physical phenomena and
5) Provide opportunities for students to engage in self-reflection through the experience of nature.

Each grade, 9th-12th, has one week of class each year where they have a Wilderness Education program. In 9th grade students focus on wilderness survival skills: fire-building, shelter building, knots, cordage, along with other primitive skills. In 10th grade, students have a general introduction to Naturalist practices, focusing primarily on animals through tracking and bird language. They also do orienteering and sense of place/awareness work in this program. In 11th grade, students go on a backpacking trip where the focus is mostly on plants and habitats as a culmination of their Botany block and learning how to travel on foot. Students learn basic backpacking skills, along with leave-no-trace ethics and practices, food preparation & planning, and creating nature journals. In 12th grade, as the culmination of the program, students participate in a 24 or 48 wilderness solo experience.

I am looking for another lead guide to help me with the 9th grade trip this fall (Sept. 21-25). Preferable, I am looking for a male to balance out the teaching energy, and someone who has strong hard-skills in our craft and survival work, and who truly loves to teach, specifically working with adolescents. The specific and final curriculum will be decided based on the leaders collaborative skills and interest. Generally we focus on bowdrill fires, debri shelters, cordage, and begin other awareness and survival practices.

To learn more about our school and our education philosophy in general, you can check out our website: www.portlandwaldorfschool.org

If you have anyone who you would recommend as a good fit, please have them give me a call: 828.713.1965
My cell will be best, as I am away the next two weeks without anticipated email access.