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Just in time for a new school year!

In this episode we gathered with Nancy Barr, Evan Nienaber, and Skyler Haugen, a group of outdoor educators, for a round table discussion on how we start off our year in a good way.

We talk about first day ideas, building relationships, and procedures and progressions for taking kids outside for learning.

Resources:
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Our guest for this episode is Brad Watts, an experienced outdoor learning educator, who in his words, has been teaching for about 20ish years. He literally started his teaching career as a result of being able to take students on a camping trip. He was one of the teachers in the Let's Lead-Nikanetan experiential leadership grade 8 program in Saskatoon. In our conversation with Brad, we talk about how outdoor learning is curricular, how we need to release control and let students take the lead in their own learning and what that actually looks like. We also talk a little bit about assessment and how Brad evaluates the time spent outside. We wrap our podcast with a conversation about some of the mistakes that we have made and the lessons we learned in the hopes that our listeners can learn from our mistakes in their own pursuit of outdoor learning.

Research Resource from today's episode: Canadian Paediatric Society. (2024). Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention. Retrieved from https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/outdoor-risky-play

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This podcast is about Outdoor Learning. Derek and Chris, two experienced outdoor educators, will be having conversations with each other and other outdoor educators about various practical aspects of using outdoor learning. Our goal is to provide educators who are new to outdoor learning and those who are experienced with ideas on how to start using the outdoor environment in their education practice and ways to expand how to use it more.

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