Mission
Duck on the Fox creates opportunities for learning to emerge through meaningful, contextual, and critical questions that reveal the relationships shaping our lives, communities, and the world.
Through inquiry, participation, and shared discovery, we help learners move beyond isolated subjects to explore the connections between disciplines, communities, and the world.
What We Value
Relationship
Learning emerges through relationships with people, places, histories, communities, and the more-than-human world.
Inquiry
Meaningful questions are often more powerful than predetermined answers.
(Re)Wilding
We seek to recover ways of knowing, relating, and learning that have been obscured by standardization, fragmentation, and disconnection.
Context
Learning emerges and is anchored in local experience.
Participation
Knowledge is built together through dialogue, investigation, and shared experience.
Why Duck on the Fox?
Some stories begin with a grand plan.
This one began with a duck.
Duck on the Fox began with a duck.
After finding an injured duck along the Fox River, we spent hours calling organizations for help. Most couldn't respond. So we did what we could ourselves.
That experience became a reminder that meaningful change often begins close to home, through relationships, curiosity, and action rather than waiting for someone else to act.
The name also reflects a deeper idea. Ducks and foxes occupy different places in the stories we tell about power, knowledge, and survival. Duck on the Fox invites us to question those assumptions and explore what becomes possible when we look at familiar relationships in new ways.
Today, Duck on the Fox extends that same spirit into education, helping learners follow meaningful questions and discover the relationships that shape our lives, communities, and world.
