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Our guest for this episode is Nancy Barr who has been teaching for over 20 years, and has used outdoor and out of school learning to build relationships with community members. In our conversation with Nancy, we talk about learning on and from the land, building relationships both with the land and with each other, and how Nancy prepares her class for going outside and offers advice for how to get started. We wrap our podcast with a conversation about some of the mistakes that we have made and the lessons we learned in the hopes that our listeners can learn from our mistakes in their own pursuit of outdoor learning.

Research Resource from today’s episode: Simpson, L. B. (2014). Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(3), 1-25. Available at: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/download/22170/17985/

Nancy’s Go Bag Itemized List:

School stuff- the things you need for policy/procedures if you school or division

- student list with phone numbers

-first aid kit

- medications for students

- any other paper work to take with while leaving a building

Nancy stuff- things I always take

- pencil case with class set of pencils ,a few erasers and a couple sharpeners

- Kleenex

- garbage bags (2)

- a few sharpies and pen

- money

- small knife

- tampons and a couple pads -also good for first aid needs

- my community card - these are Business card sized. On one side is the school logo and the other is blank. I get kids to write positive messages or thank you notes or other things on them to pass out in the community.

- Hackie-sacks or jacks or other small games for kids to use like a frezbee

- lighter/matches/bbq lighter

- paper or pad

I add things as needed or in season like a couple pair of mittens or sunscreen or perhaps socks and a toque.

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Just in time for a new school year!

In this episode we gathered with Nancy Barr, Evan Nienaber, and Skyler Haugen, a group of outdoor educators, for a round table discussion on how we start off our year in a good way.

We talk about first day ideas, building relationships, and procedures and progressions for taking kids outside for learning.

Resources:
The Best of Us Handout

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Our guest for this episode is Brad Watts, an experienced outdoor learning educator, who in his words, has been teaching for about 20ish years. He literally started his teaching career as a result of being able to take students on a camping trip. He was one of the teachers in the Let's Lead-Nikanetan experiential leadership grade 8 program in Saskatoon. In our conversation with Brad, we talk about how outdoor learning is curricular, how we need to release control and let students take the lead in their own learning and what that actually looks like. We also talk a little bit about assessment and how Brad evaluates the time spent outside. We wrap our podcast with a conversation about some of the mistakes that we have made and the lessons we learned in the hopes that our listeners can learn from our mistakes in their own pursuit of outdoor learning.

Research Resource from today's episode: Canadian Paediatric Society. (2024). Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention. Retrieved from https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/outdoor-risky-play

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