the blog: on education outside

Completed Workshops

AECENL

Association of Early Childhood Educators Newfoundland and Labrador: Preparing Outdoor Spaces For Imaginative & Risky Play Thanks to everyone who joined in from Newfoundland and

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Command games for classroom management

Command Games for Classroom Management

Command games are a playful way for teachers to position themselves as an authority figure with large groups of children who may be reluctant to take direction from adults. Command games can also be useful for teachers to practice giving loud, concise orders. Command games can be simple or complex,

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Garden Classroom Series 2023- 2024

The Garden Classroom 2023/ 2024

Hello classroom gardeners! Thank you for joining us as we kick off another year of garden learning together. You’ll receive a reminder (and a session link) each month from Van Dusen, so watch for that to access the series going forward. Session One: September 6, 2023 Big thanks to everyone

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Canadian Outdoor Learning Resource Hub

The team over at Take Me Outside has worked diligently to create an up to date resource that serves to connect teachers across the country. Systems of schooling have begun to embrace outdoor learning as a legitimate pedagogical approach to curricular learning, and research continues to provide evidence that all

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Outdoor Learning Conference 2023

Outdoor Learning Conference 2023

If you are one of the lucky educators who got a ticket to this year’s Outdoor Learning conference, you are likely still feeling the buzz of excitement that comes from being with over 400 like-minded educators in such a spectacular place. Many of you asked for the papers I cited,

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AECENL

Association of Early Childhood Educators Newfoundland and Labrador: Preparing Outdoor Spaces For Imaginative & Risky Play Thanks to everyone who joined in from Newfoundland and Labrador tonight! What a joy it is to share my love for unstructured outdoor play across the country! Here are blog posts you may find

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Risky play with loose parts.

Canadian Injury Prevention Conference

Thank you to everyone who joined Emma and I today! It’s always such a pleasure to share our joy for outdoor play and learning. The slides from our session can be viewed here. Resources that might interest you and your colleagues: Read this blog post I wrote about Risky Play

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San Antonio Risky Play and Loose Parts

Thanks to everyone from the The Advanced Learning Academy for such a warm welcome today! What a joy it is to share my love for unstructured outdoor play in schools! Here are blog posts you may find helpful and resources to support your conversations that may emerge from our session:

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Southlands Elementary: Rethinking where learning happens

Thanks for a great day of being together outdoors! I hope you all have new ideas and thinking about how to plan for and enact education outside the classroom! This website houses hundreds of blog posts to support your journey. If you are looking for something in particular, feel free

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Alberni District Teacher Professional Day

Thank you for joining me today for our session exploring how we might transition to teaching outdoors. The following blog posts and resources might be helpful as you go forward with this work. Blog Posts Transition to teaching outdoors What to wear teaching outside Kid gear for outdoor learning Books

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outdoor play and learning in the rain

Outdoor Play and Learning in the Rain

Thank you to everyone who supported our webinar on April 19 in support of the Wild About Vancouver Festival! We raised several hundred dollars that will go towards providing a free outdoor education festival on June 3. Read more about WAV, and sign up to join here. Full WAV document

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