Landere Naisbitt
Guest Blog: Children are natural caretakers of other living things
Forest Days is a program that Blue Hill Heritage Trust piloted at the public Surry Elementary School for the 2019-2020 school year. We are
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Learner-Led
Posts discussing the value of learner-led educational approaches like Forest School and how adults can best support this in practice
Landere Naisbitt
- Apr 9
- 7 min
Guest Blog: Environmental Education (and Magic!) in the Mud Kitchen at Forest Days
What is a mud kitchen, you might ask? It might sound dirty (which it is); it might sound like silly nonsense (which it is not); it might
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 1
- 6 min
How do we advocate for more Nature programs, like Forest School?
I was sitting in a wooden chair at a table in the school principal's office wondering how it all happened so fast to get me here
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Storytelling Resources
Ever since gathering a group of storytellers together at the start of the global shutdown in 2020 for weekly livestreams, I've been getting
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 14, 2020
- 6 min
Considering Ecological Relationships, Impact, and Reciprocity in our Outdoor Programs
Okay I have something to confess... it’s been a weight on my shoulders (and on my ecological conscience) as an environmental educator. It's
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- May 26, 2020
- 6 min
Forest School Perspectives: Making Space for Diversity in Practice
This blog was first shared by the UK Forest School Association. You can view that post HERE.
Imagine something exciting happened to you an
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- May 9, 2020
- 5 min
Learning when to stop asking children questions, even when it's in the name of “inquiry”
I’ve written before about my use of questions to prompt or assist children (and adults for that matter) to consider something more deeply..
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Landere Naisbitt
- Dec 1, 2019
- 10 min
Guest Blog - Early Childhood Ways of Knowing:
How Kindergarteners Teach Me About Nature Connection and How to Live in Healthy Relationship with the Earth This is special. This...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Nov 3, 2019
- 3 min
Forest Schooled Evolves... Again
Well, I’m dusting off the ol' Forest Schooled keyboard. It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog here. Life moves and sways, shifting...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 1, 2019
- 3 min
Forest Schooled, The Book
Okay, you know that feeling when you have an idea and then someday that idea becomes a reality? It's an amazing feeling and one I am so...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 21, 2019
- 4 min
Backwards Planning
I’ve been delivering Forest School programs for several years now, mostly with school age children ages 5 to 12, and so my methods for...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 7, 2019
- 6 min
Trusting Children to Resolve Conflicts in Play
As soon as we get outside of the school building and into the forest the kids race to the top of a small hill. Then they proceed to start...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 12, 2019
- 5 min
“So what do you do about puddles?!”
“So what do you do about puddles?!” I could sense a slight panic in her voice as she asked me this. And it was a valid question from...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 24, 2019
- 9 min
Integrating Forest School into a Public School Day
In the Starting a Forest School Program from Scratch series I described the steps I took to get a couple of programmes up and running in...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Feb 10, 2019
- 7 min
Exploring what Place-based means in Forest School...
The word "place" comes up a lot in this work, with Forest School being described as a means for learners to gain a "sense of place,” an...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Learning through taking risks...
I took a risk. It was the coldest day we'd had in the school year so far and nobody was quite back in the mindset of playing in cold...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 5, 2019
- 6 min
Intervening in Children's Play...
This is a tough one for me to write, but here goes... One of my missions in Forest School and even through writing this blog has been to...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Oct 11, 2018
- 4 min
It's not your dam, Mother Nature gave the rocks to you...
"I'm going to build a dam!" a six year old named Carter said. And off he went to the stream where he started to move rocks from the...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 22, 2018
- 5 min
Learning with storytelling...
I've taken a huge leap in my practice recently. I've started telling stories. Now, I know that might not sound like such a big deal, but get
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 3, 2018
- 1 min
A History of the UK & US Forest School Movement
If you've been following along with me over the past several months, you may have caught my ramblings here and there about how I'm...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- May 12, 2018
- 6 min
Running out of time for Democracy!
I feel like a bit of a Forest School hypocrite when I say that I've made conscious decisions about how to "structure" the Forest School
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 29, 2018
- 5 min
Starting a Forest School program from scratch: Part 5
Preface: I've called the first post in this series "Part 1", but a friend reminded me that there is so much more that comes before this...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 15, 2018
- 4 min
Shelters, Trust, and Maths, oh my!
It is only the third session in a new after school program. The children range in age between five and ten years old. They all attend the
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 18, 2018
- 4 min
Starting a Forest School program from scratch: Part 4
Preface: I've called the first post in this series "Part 1", but a friend reminded me that there is so much more that comes before this...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Feb 25, 2018
- 3 min
Forest School as a mindset... as well as a set of activities
I've been thinking about why it's such challenge for me to explain what Forest School "is" to people who are not familiar with it. One of my
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 29, 2018
- 4 min
Whole body learning...
We've had snow on the ground for weeks now, but a few days ago the temperature rose and it rained. This started to melt the snow... but then
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 2, 2017
- 6 min
Why Forest School?
If you caught the recent Facebook post or Forest Schooled newsletter, you'll have seen I've just started grad school and will be working
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Aug 26, 2017
- 3 min
A learning environment where the kids who can't sit still succeed...
Short on time? Listen to this blog post as a podcast. And subscribe to my podcast channel on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify....
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Aug 20, 2017
- 2 min
How to make a hammock with sticks and string...
One of my favourite things is when you spontaneously have enough time to work on a really cool project. This past week at camp we had a...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jul 30, 2017
- 3 min
Knots and lashings... Learning practical skills
I've been working with some teenagers and pre-teens this past week, which always brings a contrast from working with the little ones. Often
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jul 23, 2017
- 5 min
The Forest School Formula – exploring what 'long-term' really means...
There has been a lot of discussion (both historically and recently) amongst the Forest School community with regards to what truly defines
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 25, 2017
- 3 min
Forest School is Education in Reverse...
Being in a new place surrounded by people who are unfamiliar with Forest School has resulted in a few interesting conversations for me these
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 4, 2017
- 4 min
When children's play makes us feel uncomfortable...
When you play and learn outside frequently, you are bound to come across something dead. Animals move through their life cycle in the outdoo
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- May 13, 2017
- 4 min
When Kids are the Boss: Swings, Ladders, & a 7 year old Engineer
A 7 year old had an idea. She wanted to make a swing. When she told me this, I started racking my brain trying to think of ways to do...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 2, 2017
- 2 min
Children are, by nature, scientists...
I was bug hunting with a 7 year old boy named George when we stumbled across some mushrooms. George made a face and quickly stated he...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 26, 2017
- 5 min
Why trees? What do woodlands do for children's play?
I had a conversation with someone the other day who was interested in Forest School, but questioned why the ethos put an emphasis on it...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 12, 2017
- 4 min
How Forest School Leaders are different from Teachers...
Since undergoing Forest School training, I have changed the way I approach learning and education entirely. One major difference is I ask...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Dec 4, 2016
- 5 min
Knots and Neurons: How understanding our brains can help us learn
Teaching knots is fascinating to me. There are some people who just 'get it' – those who can watch a demonstration once and then do it...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Oct 7, 2016
- 4 min
How to 'plan' learner-led experiences...
Forest School leaders need lots of different tools. I don't just mean tools like saws and loppers. I also mean mental tools, as in ideas...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 1, 2016
- 1 min
Muddy Learning
When I say muddy learning, I don't just mean literally learning outside in the mud. It's not just about the messy physical aspect of...
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