Helping educators connect young children with nature
→ Are you passionate about starting a nature-based school, but overwhelmed with all of the steps?
→ Are you wanting to shift your school culture to embrace nature-based education, but unsure where to begin?
I work with early childhood educators who want to start or grow nature-based schools.
I can help with planning a new school, curriculum development, professional learning, and more!
My Books
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Establishing a Nature-based Preschool
Nature-based preschools are powerful programs that fuse early childhood and environmental education to develop a child’s lifelong connection with the natural world. With the number of this unique, cutting-edge program growing throughout the country, many nature centers are asking, “Is a nature-based preschool right for us?” Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool helps answer that question, and provides a how-to guide to move from concept to implementation.
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Preschool Beyond Walls: Blending Early Childhood Education and Nature-based Learning
Children are spending less time being outside in nature, playing, imagining, and learning about their surroundings. Instead, they re spending more time with tablets, televisions, and overly structured routines. Preschool Beyond Walls shows practical and strategic ways educators can create rich, explorative, and interdisciplinary learning through extensive outdoor experiences.
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Evaluating Natureness: Measuring the Quality of Nature-Based Classrooms in Pre-K through 3rd Grade
Nature-based early childhood education is a rapidly growing trend! Although many schools and programs have incorporated nature-based learning, educators can feel at a loss when trying to evaluate quality in this learning approach. But don’t worry—Evaluating Natureness: Measuring the Quality of Nature-Based Classrooms in Pre-K through 3rd Grade is here to help!
What is nature-based early childhood education?
Nature-based early childhood education—including programs such as nature-based preschools, forest kindergartens, and nature-based elementary school—are growing in popularity in early childhood education. In this video I describe the broad concept of nature-based early childhood education and nature-based preschools specifically.
Hi, I’m Rachel!
As an author, speaker, and education consultant, I help early childhood educators create nature-based schools or add the nature-based approach to their existing programs. With the support I offer in business planning, operations, staffing, and curricula, my clients are able to create highly respected nature-based schools and programs that families clamor to attend.
Let me help you avoid the common and sometimes costly mistakes of nature-based education so you can focus on growing a nature-based school or program so engaging and effective, you end up with a long waiting list of families wanting to attend.