How do we develop programs that are welcoming and inclusive to all members of our communities? What does it mean to be culturally relevant? This forum will explore how parents and educators in one community approach these questions. We heard stories from a public school educator, a parent, and a nature-based preschool founder in Minneapolis, MN, as they shared their different paths to nature and what culturally relevant teaching means to them.
Willamette Partnership’s Oregon Health & Outdoors Initiative partnered with outdoor early childhood experts across the country to develop the "Outdoor Preschool Policy Action Framework." The framework helps advocates — from parents, teachers, and administrators to elected officials — find a pathway to make outdoor preschool available to all. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to this work, so this resource identifies many potential options you can use to start moving your state along the pathway to make outdoor preschools available to everyone!
The Natural Start Alliance partnered with the National Farm to School Network for the webinar, “Aligning Outdoor Learning & Farm to ECE.” Explore resources for connecting Farm to Early Care and Education and outdoor learning.
In this interactive webinar, presenters provided strategies to facilitate students' interaction with nature, particularly with students who live in areas where substantial inequities exist between children and their lack of access to a clean and healthy environment.
In this webinar, the Natural Start Alliance, National Wildlife Federation's Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO), and members of the Seven November team (a strategic communications firm) share the findings from a comprehensive messaging analysis initiative around early childhood education.
Nature Niños is dedicated to providing youth across the state with opportunities to connect with nature, build confidence, and foster a deep sense of environmental stewardship.
Get to know Natural Start member, Limes Smiles for Miles Inc, a program dedicated to providing safe, outdoor-based early intervention childcare services to low-income families with children ages 3 to 5 diagnosed with Autism and Down Syndrome.
In this volume, read articles on climate change education in early childhood classrooms; the role of materiality in pre-primary children's land art; a community of practice approach for supporting early childhood educators; Indigenous perspectives in children's literature; and more.
Get to know Natural Start member, Common Ground, and learn more about their NatureYear program, a nature-based enrichment program that serves students ages 5-14+ in New Haven, CT.
