Location
All Village Field Trips are held at The Forest International Retreat Center, 40 minutes from the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota. The site features indoor spaces for activities, crafts and meetings, as well as forest trails, three lakes, and other outdoor recreation areas. Residential facilities are fully winterized.
Villagers stay in comfortable, winterized cabins, arranged by gender and age. It is common for different school groups to share a cabin. When possible, there is never one student from a school alone in a cabin. Each cabin houses 10 to 14 villagers plus staff and chaperones.
Teachers who feel strongly about their students' cabin assignments may contact the program leader at least 30 days before the program to inquire about the possibility of submitting housing requests for pairs of students.
Lead teachers and chaperones alike have a supervisory role during the weekend and have the opportunity to observe our unique brand of immersion education in action. Teachers may also be incorporated into the program delivery. All chaperones will stay in cabins with students, unless moved to other housing by the program leader. The lead teacher will be housed with students as necessary and determined by the individual program leader.
