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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Posts discussing the value of holistic educational approaches like Forest School and the role of adults in promoting learning and development to foster resilient, confident, independent, and creative learners
Romina Kramer
- Apr 21
- 5 min
Guest Blog: How Forest School Soothes Our Seven (Yes Seven!) Senses
“The more exposure your child has to sensory experiences throughout the day, the more integrated and organized the brain, senses and body be
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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)
- Jul 1, 2021
- 6 min
Starting a Program from Scratch Again (Or not)... Part 3
Learning about and reflecting on all that I don't know We often say, "Start with what you know"... but what if we said instead, "Start...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Starting a program from scratch again (Or not)... Part 2
Several months ago I shared a bit about my desires and reservations for starting up a new program since moving to a new place. See...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 17, 2021
- 6 min
Supporting behaviour through relationships, instead of rewards and punishments...
"What do you need to feel safe?", I asked. "I don't want to get hit by sticks!", he said. I was standing between two boys whose play had...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 27, 2020
- 5 min
Starting a program from scratch again (Or not)... Part 1
Over three years ago when I moved countries from England to the USA I was full of inspiration from all the things I'd learned while living
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
Growing from 'Forest School' to 'Nature-rooted learning'
Language is funny. Sometimes I can’t quite find the right words to describe what I truly mean. I have this problem all the time when trying
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Aug 31, 2020
- 5 min
What am I going to do to keep myself uncomfortable?
Years ago I attended a brief workshop at a conference that, in just a short two-hour window, provided me with lessons that have stuck with
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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 30, 2019
- 6 min
Emergent Curriculum... when the lessons emerge with the Land
There was a nest. It was high up in one of the pine trees. We thought it was just the remnants left over from the previous year until a...
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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)
- May 16, 2019
- 1 min
Why I'm grateful Forest & Nature School is long-term
We’ve been coming to Forest School one afternoon each week for over 30 weeks now. We’re comfortable in the forest, have a familiar set of...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- May 1, 2019
- 1 min
Facing Colonization in our Work with the Land
& Building our Understanding of Indigenous Perspectives Growing up in the United States, and more specifically Hawaii, it always felt...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 27, 2019
- 5 min
Lessons learned from starting programs from scratch...
After starting a handful of programs from scratch, there are so many things I’ve learned from the process. (See Starting a Forest School...
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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)
- 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)
- Dec 16, 2018
- 3 min
Delivering programs at night...
This has been a really exciting time of year for me because it's the first time I've delivered Forest School sessions in the dark! I...
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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)
- Sep 30, 2018
- 4 min
Children's risky play and experiencing 'scary-funny'
The other day at Forest School a five year old named Ryan approached me with tears in his eyes. He was calm, but also clearly upset. He...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 29, 2018
- 4 min
Nature is not always nice... And that's why I do this work
I went to a conference recently that was all about connecting children with nature. Sounds like something that should be right up my...
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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)
- 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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