Good Natured Learning
GROWING NATURE-CONNECTED SCHOOLS
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We make bringing nature’s proven and wide-ranging benefits into schools easy and attractive to teachers, administrators, and students.​​
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Teaching Outdoors Program – A 1-day immersive, in-person workshop followed by a multi-week professional learning community, designed to equip and mobilize all educators in a school to confidently deliver high-quality teaching and learning outdoors.
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Good Natured Partnership – A year-long, whole-school, wraparound experience that cultivates in-house leaders, systems, and expertise to embed nature-based education into the fabric of teaching and learning in a school. *The Teaching Outdoors Program is a foundational component nested in the Partnership.
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Teaching Outdoors Program
Outdoor spaces near your school—whether a patch of grass under a tree, a neighborhood park, a forest, an open field, a rooftop, a garden, or a schoolyard—hold untapped potential to enhance learning and wellbeing.
The Teaching Outdoors Program equips all educators in your school to harness these outdoor spaces for high-quality teaching and learning.
Grow
Educators gain the knowledge and skills to confidently teach outdoors through the Teaching Outdoors Workshop. They learn how outdoor instruction supports wellness, equity, and academic success while exploring practical strategies to adapt lessons for any subject, age group, or school setting.​
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Act
Through the Teaching Outdoors Challenge, educators put their learning into action by progressively increasing time spent teaching outside. With ongoing support from a professional learning community, they learn to use their school’s nearby nature as a powerful extension of their classroom.
Inspire
By the end of the program, educators confidently deliver high-quality, standards-aligned lessons in outdoor environments, unlocking their creativity while enhancing their mental health and joy in teaching. Their students benefit from meaningful nature connections, fostering deeper engagement, improved wellbeing, and greater learning success.​
Good Natured Partnership
Nature connections are a low-cost, proven, immediate, and attainable way to drive better wellbeing and learning in schools.
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The Good Natured Partnership empowers teachers to integrate “apple-a-day” nature connections into the way they teach, unlocking nature’s benefits for their learners, themselves, and the planet.​
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Community & Learning
We equip a select team of educators with the knowledge, skills, strategies, and motivation to integrate nature connections into everyday teaching. During our immersive 5-day, 4-night Nature Retreat, they build a strong foundation in nature-based education through our comprehensive curriculum, including the Teaching Outdoors Workshop, while forming a close-knit cohort of peer leaders.
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Activation & Connection
Back at school, theory meets practice as educators bring nature-based learning to life through our Teaching Outdoors Challenge, a multi-week, hybrid professional learning community through which they develop and refine outdoor teaching skills on the job, in their classes, and with their students. Supported by teaching materials and school-systems consulting, educators gain the tools and guidance to make nature-based learning accessible and effective.
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Teaching & Sustaining
After experiencing it themselves, your educators facilitate the Teaching Outdoors Workshop and Teaching Outdoors Challenge for colleagues at their school fostering collaboration, shared learning, and lasting inspiration. Schools emerge from our partnership with nature-based education woven into everyday teaching and learning and empowered with the in-house expertise, materials, and systems to make it last.
