Steve Archibald has been a classroom teacher, place-based outdoor educator and workshop facilitator for over twenty years. He has taught in conventional public school classrooms, multi-age one-room schoolhouses, charter schools, lab schools, private schools, environmental education centers and universities. 

Steve lives in the mountains of southwestern Montana. In addition to teaching, he owns an educational consulting business that includes professional curriculum development He also writes children’s books about wild places and the humans who historically and presently live in and around them.

Before becoming a teacher, Steve co-owned and co-managed a thriving hardware/lumber business in the Pacific Northwest. Later, as a member of the faculty of Teton Science School in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Steve wrote the Journeys place-based education curriculum. He has served as a board member of the Montana Environmental Education Association and the Montana Natural History Center. He does contract work for Montana Audubon, Montana State University, the University of Montana, and leads teacher workshops on the topic of place-based education. He helped start and the Two Creeks Community School in 2003.

Steve and his wife Toni have been married for 38 years.They have four grown children and eight grandchildren.