Bald Mountain Participant Enrollment Form: ELI (RE)Connect

Bald Mountain Meadow Participant Enrollment Form
ELI (Re)Connect: An ELI Mini-Reunion!

To reserve your spot in this program, please complete the following form.
Program Description:
Dear ELI Community, I hope this letter finds you well, enjoying your respective fall seasons wherever they might be. Here in Maine the leaves are falling in droves, and this morning marked our first official frost. The wooly bears were curled up in tight little balls.

Maine! After 22 years in the classroom, the last 13 at Phillips Exeter, I made the decision to leave Exeter in order to operate Bald Mountain Meadow full time. Bald Mountain offers schools, teachers, and students a variety of resources and programs for interdisciplinary, place-based learning, and I hope you’ll check out our website to get a clearer sense of what we’ve got cooking! Though I feel mildly terrified to de-couple from an institution, it seems to me that what students and teachers need right now has been evolving more quickly than less nimble institutions are able to possibly address. Bald Mountain Meadow is my attempt to move more quickly toward my pedagogical vision, to coalesce my disparate experiences in indoor and outdoor classrooms, and, frankly, to live a little closer to my heart.

The quiet this fall in the absence of the usual opening of school madness has me looking back over the two decades of my career remembering. And one of the clearest truths standing out to me now is that ELI has been the most satisfying professional work of my career, the closest I’ve ever come to the kind of joyful, connected professional community I most crave.

As an attempt to rekindle the spark of the ELI community and to provide opportunities for teacher connection, joy, and conversation about things we all love, Bald Mountain Meadow is offering an ELI mini-reunion taking place in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom on Aug 21-23 2026!

What: ELI (Re)Connect! A Three-Day Reunion in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom for past participants of ELI and their partners and friends. A chance to reconnect; to learn; to have fun together outdoors; to share structured conversations about place-based environmental pedagogy; to generally rest and recharge.

This reunion will be a chance to reconnect with past friends, meet new friends from other ELI cohorts, and generally dream out loud together about our respective visions for how to make our classrooms more joyful and connected and empowering to students. We’ll have formal programming to complement these aims–workshops by writers Sean Prentiss and Ian Ramsey for example, and the chance to swim in Lake Willoughby, paddle the CT River, and hike Bald Mountain.

For those of you looking for a slightly longer professional development experience, you can also check out our Pedagogical Paddle in partnership with the CT River Schools Collaborative in June.

What’s Included: Food (community-prepared!); Shared Cabin or Camping Accommodations at Jobs Pond Camp; Daily Yoga; Topical Workshops; Curated Conversation; Bald Mountain Hike; Willoughby Lake Swim; CT River Paddle; Live Music

I hope that you’ll join us in the Kingdom in August, and that you’ll help pull in others from your ELI cohort and perhaps even bring a friend or two who you imagine might benefit from connecting with this wonderful, wonderful group of educators from around the world!

Sincerely, Jason
Program Dates:

August 21-23, 2026
Featured Guests and Speakers
Sean Prentiss, Norwich University, Author of National Outdoor Book of the Year, Finding Abbey
Ian Ramsey, Director of the Kaufman Program for Environmental Writing and Wilderness Exploration at North Yarmouth Academy, Author of Hackable Animal
Carol Irons, Abenaki Elder and former Vice Chair of VT State Commission on Native American Affairs
Program Cost: $600 Limited Financial Aid may be available to qualifying teachers

Tuition includes all programming, instruction, group gear, food, and transportation once participants arrive at Jobs Pond Camp.
Bald Mountain Meadow Admission Policies

Bald Mountain Meadow seeks teachers who are motivated to explore interdisciplinary approaches to place-based education and who are in good health both physically and emotionally. ELI (Re)Connect is not an appropriate choice for individuals dealing with behavioral, motivational, or rehabilitation issues. We will deny admission to anyone we believe to be unable to meet the physical, mental, social or safety demands of our courses.
Behavior and Discipline

Bald Mountain Meadow will expel any participant who exhibits behavior that is unsafe or disrupts or distracts from the educational mission of our programs. Harassment, abuse of illegal substances, theft or misuse of property, and disregarding instructions are examples of behavior that will lead to expulsion. If a participant is expelled, there will be no refund.
Participant Waiver and Health Forms

Prior to the course, each participant will be required to complete required agreements, such as:, Liability Waiver, and a health screening document confirming that each participant attending the trip is in good physical and psychological condition to engage in the program.
Financial Agreement

TUITION ELI (Re)Connect! Is $600. Tuition includes all programming, instruction, gear, food, and transportation once participants arrive at Jobs Pond Camp. Participants are responsible for their own Health Insurance and transportation to Jobs Pond. We will issue an invoice through our Quickbooks platform once we receive this completed Participant Enrollment Form. Tuition is due in full by March 15th, 2026. Payment may be made by check made out to Bald Mountain Meadow, LLC and mailed to: Bald Mountain Meadow/Care of Jason BreMiller at 649 Walnut Hill Road, North Yarmouth, ME 04097. You may also pay via ACH or ZELLE.
Cancellation Policy

For cancellations not caused by Bald Mountain Meadow less than 45 days before the course start date, Bald Mountain Meadow will retain 100% of tuition.
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Bald Mountain Meadow Participant Enrollment Form

ELI (Re)Connect: An ELI Mini-Reunion!

Program Description:

Program Dates:

Featured Guests and Speakers

Program Cost: $600 Limited Financial Aid may be available to qualifying teachers

Bald Mountain Meadow Admission Policies

Behavior and Discipline

Participant Waiver and Health Forms

Financial Agreement

Cancellation Policy

Participant Signature