Our Offerings
The Teaching Outdoors Program and The Good Natured Partnership
bring nature’s proven benefits into classrooms, giving educators
the tools to inspire and sustain meaningful learning.
The Teaching Outdoors Program
Description
A 1-day immersive, in-person workshop followed by a multi-week professional learning community, designed to equip and mobilize educators to confidently deliver high-quality teaching and learning outdoors.
Three experiential phases structure the program:
Grow
Educators gain the knowledge, skills, and motivation to 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.
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 program end, educators confidently deliver high-quality, standards-aligned lessons outdoors, 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.
The Good Natured Partnership Description
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 for every educator in a school.
The program phases are structured around the seasons:
Community and Learning
In the summer, 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.
Activation and Connection
In the fall 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.
Teaching and Sustaining​​
IIn the spring, educators take part in an in-person Facilitator Training that prepares them to lead the Teaching Outdoors Workshop and Challenge at their school. This training equips them to foster collaboration, encourage shared learning, and inspire lasting change among their colleagues. 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.
