Learning by Nature

In Learning by Nature I —
Becca Katz
— write about why we MUST grow nature-connected schools EVERYWHERE and how we can do that through nature-based learning.

Nature-based learning is learning outdoors or bringing elements of nature indoors for learning. It can be done by any educator, in any school, within any curricular model, anywhere, with any age group, and in any content.

Here at Learning, by Nature, I’m framing and workshopping (please help!) a plan for achieving "Earthshot Audacity" 👆🏻 which is a play on the idea of "moonshot goals" (which are big, hairy, audacious, and out-of-this-world).

Earthshot Audacity — a goal here on earth — is the one I want pursue, balancing being rooted to the ground with reaching skyward.

I post weekly about nature-connected schools and related strands threading through the mycorrhizal 🍄🍄🍄🍄 network of my brain, body, and heart.

If you subscribe, you’ll be getting ~weekly letters*

about nature-based learning, and how it is an ESSENTIAL innovation to embed in routine teaching and learning practices in schools everywhere:

to tackle “Nature-Deficit Disorder” (coined by Richard Louv in 2005 when he first published Last Child in the Woods).
For honest and attainable positive change in education.
For teacher and student wellbeing.
For mental health.
And physical health.
For social emotional and 21st Century Skills development.
For cognition.
For academic achievement.
For joy.
For equity!
For our planet 🌍. Which, ahem, means FOR EVERYONE (you are from around here, right?).
Because we can.
Because we can’t not!