EEA INITIATIVES
Outdoor  Learning  Collaboratory

Outdoor Learning Collaboratory

Share your expertise and ideas on best practices in outdoor learning at an upcoming interactive webinar

EEA wants to hear from you if you have experience engaging students in nature, designing and installing amenities or improvements to create schoolyard learning spaces, teaching with culturally-competent instructional strategies, facilitating student-directed environmental stewardship projects, providing professional development to increase teacher capacity for outdoor learning, researching models and methods, and/or sustaining and scaling effective outdoor learning.

Findings from this community engagement initiative will lead to the development of new Guidelines for Excellence in Outdoor Learning. Thank you to The Outdoor Learning Store for hosting via Zoom webinar.

Upcoming opportunities to participate: 

• EEA/SEEA Conference, September 29 - October 1, 2022 at Unicoi State Park & Lodge in Helen, GA
• NAAEE Conference, October 11-15, 2022 in Tucson, AZ

Key Questions to Be Considered

Below are some questions to think about as you prepare to participate in a collaboratory session:

• What are the key benefits of outdoor learning?
• What makes an effective outdoor learning experience?
• How can we design and create spaces that enhance outdoor learning?
• Who should be involved in planning for, delivering, and sustaining outdoor learning?
• What do educators need to increase their capacity for engaging students in outdoor learning?
• What are the obstacles, perils, and pitfalls of outdoor learning?
• What partnerships and collaborations can enhance or expand outdoor learning?
• Who gets to experience outdoor learning and where are the gaps? Why?
• What are some exemplary case studies, models, and methods you can recommend?
• How can outdoor learning be sustained and scaled so that every child in Georgia can benefit?