Nature-based educators make thousands of decisions every day that influence children’s learning. It’s important to consider the overall goals of nature-based programs and whether or not our teaching and administrative practices reflect those goals. Rachel will challenge attendees to consider how well program structures, physical spaces, and teacher-child interactions align with the “Why?” of nature-based early childhood education. 

For more information and to grab your seat CLICK HERE!

This event is free to Grove members. Want to be a member? Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together. (Please note: members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

From your profile to your posts, Instagram can help grow your audience and deepen a sense of community with your families. Learn how to easily engage and grow your enrollment with Lauren Litt, a social media coach and fractional Chief Marketing Officer. Join us as Lauren shares valuable tips and insights on how to leverage Instagram to attract perfect-fit families.

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

This workshop, with a mix of presentation and small group work, will focus on the foundations of nature-based early childhood education. We’ll discuss the benefits of benefits of outdoor play, preparing the indoors, outdoor play area, and areas beyond the fence for learning. We’ll also discuss teacher-child interactions to support learning.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop or check out our on-demand workshops here.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

Teaching young children is a joyful, and challenging endeavor. The most effective teachers are somehow able to maintain a mental calmness and stability (equanimity) as they go about the complex task of helping a diverse group of young children learn to navigate the intricate world that is an early childhood classroom. How is this possible? 

This live presentation and Q&A will explore the benefits and possibilities when nature and mindfulness come together in the early childhood classroom. 

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

Join Tania Moloney from Nurture in Nature Australia as she shares the power of using books as springboards to enrich and engage nature play and outdoor learning opportunities. We’ll look at “who” is on your bookshelf and why that’s important, and Tania will dig into her 5 Top Storytelling Tools to help you grow your skills and confidence as a natural storyteller.

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

Leading change among a program is difficult under any circumstance, but nature-based education can bring its own set of challenges. This focused call will provide a trail map for shifting progress toward nature-based education. It will discuss the questions we need to ask and answer before we can lead teams to the next steps.

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop or check out our on-demand workshops here.

Integration of nature is being talked about more and more and now one of Little Sprout’s pillars. But how does that fit with everything else that happens in an early childhood classroom? This session will explore the core principles of nature-based education and meaningful ways to integrate those principles into practice. While addressing the common concerns and challenges, this session will provide concrete steps to integrate nature into the daily schedule, the indoor and outdoor classrooms, and into curriculum planning.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop or check out our on-demand workshops here.

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

This workshop will focus on developing purposeful, engaging outdoor learning spaces to support nature-based early childhood education.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop.

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

This is an open Q&A time for anything related to personnel--hiring, onboarding, training, etc. If you haven't already, be sure to check out the Hiring Process focus call recording, Welcoming Staff, and Individual PD plans.

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hour with Dr. Rachel Larimore is a one-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 1 hour and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

This workshop, with a mix of presentation and small group work, will focus on the foundations of nature-based early childhood education. We’ll discuss the benefits of benefits of outdoor play, preparing the indoors, outdoor play area, and areas beyond the fence for learning. We’ll also discuss teacher-child interactions to support learning.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop.

Drop-in Office Hours with Dr. Rachel Larimore are two-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 2 hours and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Drop-in Office Hours with Dr. Rachel Larimore are two-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 2 hours and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Presented by Rachel Larimore, Ph.D., Chief Visionary, Samara Early Learning; Patti Bailie, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Maine at Farmington; and Arianna Pikus, M.S., Doctoral Candidate, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University; Moderated by Jennifer Lewis, President, Gryphon House, Inc.

This FREE edWebinar will explore the Nature-Based Education Rating Scale (NABERS) tool. NABERS was developed to help identify the quality and level of “natureness” for those PreK and K-3 programs adding nature to their curricula. This edWebinar will first identify the core principles of Nature-based Early Childhood Education (NbECE) and then discuss tangible measures of quality. Attendees will leave the session able to identify nature-based practices in the program structure, staffing, physical environment, community partnerships, and family engagement.

While other measures of quality exist in early childhood education (e.g., ECERS, CLASS) this is the first tool to specifically address the features of nature-based education. NbECE is considered the blending of early childhood and environmental education and the NABERS tool focuses specifically on the overlap between these two disciplines. That is, NABERS does not address measures of quality related to early childhood in general, but rather those practices specific to the nature-based approach. For example, family engagement is important whether a program is nature based or not. Thus, NABERS only addresses aspects specific to family engagement such as family education related to the benefits of nature-based learning.

Attend this edWebinar to learn how to:

• Identify the core principles of a nature-based early childhood approach

• Describe quality nature-based practices related to program structure, staffing, physical environment setup, and family engagement

This edWebinar will be of interest to PreK-3 teachers and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

Click here for more information or to register.

To get your copy of Evaluating Natureness, visit the Samara Shop.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

With the release of Rachel's new book "Evaluating Natureness" (written with Patti Bailie & Arianna Pikus) it seems a good time to talk about key features of high-quality nature-based programs. This call will explore the tools, but primarily the key characteristics of nature-based programs.

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hours with Dr. Rachel Larimore are two-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 2 hours and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

This workshop will focus on developing purposeful, engaging outdoor learning spaces to support nature-based early childhood education.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

This month’s call is focused on Designing Large & Small Group Activities. This focused call will take a deeper look at the teacher-led activities during large and small groups. We'll explore...How do we plan for these activities? What are critical during the activities? What steps can we take after an activity occurs?

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

Drop-in Office Hours with Dr. Rachel Larimore are two-hour sessions where Rachel is available on Zoom for Grove members to drop-in for a conversation. This is a great chance to get answers to your questions about nature-based early childhood education. This is also a place to receive tailored feedback from Rachel specific to your situation. We offer these informal and relaxed sessions for Grove members so they can more easily join at time that suits them—and without the feeling of “oh, the call already started so I can’t join.” Rather, Rachel is present for 2 hours and she’d love to see you!

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to learn more about The Grove—a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together.

Each month inside The Grove is a focused live video conference call on a particular topic. The format includes a brief presentation followed by open discussion among attendees.

This month’s call is focused on Storytelling in the NbECE Classroom with Harriet Hart. Storytelling can be a powerful tool in the classroom! Join us for the conversation with Harriet Hart who is a master at the craft of storytelling.

This event is for Grove members only. Click here to join The Grove, a community of nature-based educators learning and growing together, and attend this call. (Please note, members have access to recordings of all previous presentations.)

This workshop, with a mix of presentation and small group work, will focus on the foundations of nature-based early childhood education. We’ll discuss the benefits of benefits of outdoor play, preparing the indoors, outdoor play area, and areas beyond the fence for learning. We’ll also discuss teacher-child interactions to support learning.

This is a private professional learning workshop. Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a similar workshop.