March 7, 2025

Teaching

'Nature-filled schools with hands-on and active learning and play opportunities calm students, reduce aggressive behavior, and improve learning outcomes.'

Kids are burning out. Schools That Heal shows how using evidence based, trauma-informed design to create supportive school environments can help. Nature-filled spaces promote well-being and learning outcomes. Who knew?

Kids are burning out. Schools That Heal shows how using evidence based, trauma-informed design to create supportive school environments can help. Nature-filled spaces promote well-being and learning outcomes. Who knew?

"Overwhelming anxiety now affects nearly two-thirds of young adults. It has surpassed depression as the number one reason college students seek counseling."

"Being in nature helps students play cooperatively and creatively. Neighborhoods and schools with more trees have less crime and stronger social ties than neighborhoods and schools with less. By remaking schools to become welcoming, healthy, safe, and productive, we create models for students and the community to experience, learn from, and emulate in the larger world." - Claire Latané

BOOK EXCERPT: Schools That Heal: How School Environments Shape Mental, Social, and Physical Health

Teaching

Given curiosity, access, and one another, learners can create knowledge together.

TED TALK: Kids Can Teach Themselves

Teaching

Play is how children practice being human.

BOOK: Free To Learn

Teaching

Teens: take responsibility for your own education

BOOK: The Teenage Liberation Handbook – 30th Anniversary Edition!

Teaching

Start with questions, not answers.

BOOK: Start with Questions: The Classroom as Design Studio