Great Schools Partnership Workshop: Nature as a Co-Teacher: Expanding Your Classroom Beyond School Walls

Explore how nature-based learning can create welcoming, inspiring, and academically rigorous experiences—no matter where your school is located. Discover how the outdoors can become your most powerful co-teacher, sparking curiosity, building skills, and deepening students’ connections with each other and the world around them. Whether you’re an experienced outdoor educator or just beginning to explore nature-based learning, this retreat will offer strategies you can use immediately. You’ll leave with nature-based learning approaches that support academic standards while also nurturing students’ sense of wonder and connection to the natural world.