I was glad to contribute to the Canadian Centre for Outdoor Play Framework. The purpose of this evidence-informed Framework was to achieve consensus and serve as a pedagogical document that will promote consistency in training and supporting outdoor ECE practitioners across Canada in their work. You can access the document here: Educators Teaching Educators: Canada’s Outdoor Early Childhood Education Continuous Professional Learning Framework
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 measures of wellness are improved when children spend more time outside. This work is easier (and more fun) when we work together, and this resource hub helps us find one another! This resource hub is grounded in the knowledge that children who are provided with time and space for learning outdoors also build relationships with Indigenous perspectives and can develop an ethic of care for the lands they learn with and from. The document is available for viewing here, and my summary of the research we published on support factors and barriers to outdoor learning begins on page 64.
