Just like you, pediatricians have witnessed a shift in how children spend their time: more and more screen time, more and more (over) scheduled activities, and more parental stress, including concerns about all kinds of safety in public spaces. All...
It’s the first week of the school year, and I’m at Kids Creek Forest, one of our Learning Landscape properties identified by teachers and conserved by the Feather River Land Trust. I’m meeting with Lynee Crawford, a botanist and GIS...
Outdoor learning has taken on many meanings over the last hundred years, especially since the global pandemic. It can be seen as learning about local ecosystems, survival skills, agriculture, or simply taking the lesson that would otherwise be taught within...
Introduction Over the past fifty years, in my own organization, Inverness Research, I have evaluated and studied hundreds of efforts to improve education. For almost a decade, I have worked with Ten Strands as a critical friend and thought partner....
Want to take a little quiz? Come on, it’ll be fun. Just answer this one question before you get started reading the rest of this article. Which of the following are widely accepted benefits associated with TK–12 students spending time...
