Educator Steven Rasmussen shares his story of founding a new outdoor school in Calistoga.
...Chaffey High School junior Alison Walls contributes an important piece about the connection between air quality and quality of life.
...We look back at our top moments and achievements from a special year!
...Lori Kiesser, the development officer for the Orange County Department of Education’s Inside the Outdoors (ITO), recounts the impact of the fire on the ITO headquarters in Rancho Soñado and discusses wildfires and climate change.
...We interviewed three staff members from The Lawrence Hall of Science to discuss outdoor education and California’s safe return to schools.
...Shaun Hawke, of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, provides recommendations to educators on how to maximize outdoor spaces.
...In this special back-to-school newsletter, we examine five ways that outdoor learning positively impacts students.
...This week’s newsletter features Dr. Thomas Herman, of the Department of Geography at San Diego State University, writing about the launch California’s Hub for Environmental Learning and Action (CHELA), a website resource that uses geographic data to accelerate environmental learning.
...Claire Latané, assistant professor of landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, offers suggestions on how schools and classrooms can transform physical spaces to improve mental health in this week’s newsletter.
...This week we are sharing a second article written by Nan Renner, senior director of learning design and innovation at UC San Diego’s Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Renner discusses the Climate Champions Virtual Summit and local climate K–12 curriculum.
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