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1st Alumni Trip of 2026 – Ski Joring & Touring!

March 13, 2026

This past weekend, we welcomed alumni to campus for our first HMI Alumni Trip of 2026, Ski Joring & Touring! Since restarting our Alumni Trips in 2025, we’ve had a great time reconnecting with alumni of all ages and in all walks of life. Our participants from Semester 18, Semester 42, and a Summer Term 2023 parent started off the trip on Friday with a chilly (and rare!) powder day at Ski Cooper, Leadville’s local ski mountain. HMI staff members joined us to teach a Telemark ski lesson and to enjoy the fresh snow that continued to fall as we skied.  After a few hours of perfecting tele turns (and

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Semester 56 First Academic Block: A Shift in Education

March 12, 2026

A Shift in Education | Ian Hopper Coming from a school with 3,000 students, 25+ students per class, and a course structure completely around taking notes, the first academic block of HMI was eye-opening. For the first time in my life, I can honestly and wholeheartedly say that I have enjoyed learning. You can assume it was a slight shock when our first reading of the academic block was an excerpt from Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, which explained that my entire school and past schools have been using what he calls the “banking concept of education.” While Freire didn’t name my home school specifically, he described it

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New Video: HMI Alumni Voices

A few years ago, we began video interviewing different HMI alumni about their student experiences. For some, just a few years had passed since HMI; others were

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