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Work With Us! 

We make bringing nature’s proven and wide-ranging benefits into schools easy and attractive to teachers, administrators, and students with a low-cost, immediate, and scalable approach.

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Teaching Outdoors
Workshop

Our foundational in-person professional learning experience empowers PK-12 educators to integrate routine, modest, bite-sized nature connections into the way they teach. We call this “apple-a-day” nature-based learning.

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  • Offered in site-specific formats, including 2-hour, half-day, and full-day sessions.

  • Designed for educators in every grade level and subject area. 

  • Participants experience nature as both the content and context for high quality learning. 

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Teaching Outdoors Challenge

​With in-person and online components, our multi-week professional learning community supports educators to develop and refine their outdoor teaching skills on the job, in their classes and with their students.​

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  • Participants engage in scaffolded hands-on practice to effectively integrate outdoor instruction into their routine teaching practices.

  • Multi-week structure can be scheduled to match every school calendar.

  • Available in facilitated or self-directed formats, both highlighting collaborative learning and personal reflection.

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Good Natured Partnership

Our year-long partnership builds your school’s internal capacity to integrate nature into everyday teaching and learning practices, making Good Natured Learning feel like part of your own team—supporting you every step of the way, even beyond the formal partnership year.

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  1. Equip your school for outdoor learning.
    We support you in acquiring outdoor teaching supplies and setting up inviting outdoor learning spaces.

  2. Empower your teachers with “apple-a-day” nature-based learning practices.

    • Teacher Leader Fellowship: A year-long professional development program where selected teacher-leaders become in-house experts in nature-based education and serve as GNL Ambassadors to embed nature-based learning in your school

    • Teaching Outdoors Training: Fellow-led training for teachers, counselors, and staff to integrate outdoor learning, offered as annual PD or for onboarding new staff.

    • Teaching Outdoors Challenge: Fellow-led program to build outdoor teaching skills, run annually, for new staff, or as a grade-level competition.

  3. Elevate your school’s systems to sustain outdoor learning. Our customized consulting helps you adapt and adopt guidelines and practices to make outdoor learning accessible and enduring, creating supportive systems that will last..

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Good Natured Consulting

From conducting teacher surveys to facilitating community focus groups to recommending materials for your unique outdoor spaces, we’re with you every step of the way to successfully implement nature-based education. ​

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  • Tailored service to meet your school or district wherever you are in your journey.

  • Adapt and leverage existing school systems to support outdoor learning.

  • Guidance on topics from honoring learning differences in outdoor classrooms to site-specific risk management.

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