We’re off, off and away for a different kind of adventure. Lots of outdoors, but not quite as many forests, as we take off today for Jordan to see some of the treasures of Petra, the wide open seas, and some overnights in the desert.  Hopefully we’ll get a few shots along the way on our instagram – we’ll see you on the flip side ..read more

When we still lived in Denmark, we had the pleasure of meeting the director and team behind the NaturePlay movie.  All about outdoor education and the scandinavian model, the movie takes you through several schools and the fundamental principles behind outdoor learning. A few have written in to ask where they can see that movie and I’m pleased to pass on that it will be screening in Copenhagen in February  – so this month!  Specifically, the screenings will take place on February 17th and February 26th. There will be a discussion on the 26th in English about some developments a ..read more

Although I haven’t been too prolific on the blog, readers have been great about stopping by and checking in on us. We’ll see if we can do something about the sporadic posts in 2019, but in the meantime, here have been the most popular posts in the past couple of years.  I know know we’re in mid-January but I feel like if you get a review out in the first month of the year, it still counts!  Please say you think so too!   How do we visit a Danish forest school? This is probably the top question that I get even still today.  I get it so often by email and various messages, t ..read more

We blinked and it became 2019 – snow is down and around our area which means snowballs and snowmen and hot chocolate. I know I haven’t been around the blog here much – there are a million reasons for that – none of them that great and most of them related to time and trying to figure out what to do with this space but I’m hoping to at least get a few updates in.  Let’s give this a go in the new year – happy winter and happy January to all ..read more

Couldn’t be more exited – by the time this posts, we should be back on our favorite beach, enjoying a “backwards dinner” of ice cream first, polserhorn second (isn’t summer for that kind of thing?).  We will be taking in the late hours of light on our most favorite Bellevue Beach.  The Danish summer will be ours again soon, if only for a little while. Of course, we have visits to our beloved forest school planned, and summer camps on the ocean, to keep learning in the outdoor way.  Just because the kids get older doesn’t mean they stop learning outdoors, we just have to work a l ..read more

When I first started learning about forest schools, there was no question that all searches, books and educators in the know pointed to Cedarsong Nature School.  After all, it was the subject of the well-known “Nightline” special in 2011, and launched the notion of schooling without walls. Photo Credit @ Cedarsong Nature School The founder, Erin Kenny, is an amazing woman and educator, and I loved working with her vision and inspirations while on the American Forest Kindergarten Association board.  Erin has been battling cancer on and off, leading her to make the call to close Ceda ..read more

How to visit a Danish forest school or forest kindergarten has long-been the top question that I receive here on the blog.  Even almost two years after leaving Copenhagen, I get this question probably about once a week, especially right before summer when lots of students and teachers are making their summer plans.  Unfortunately, it’s also the question I probably am least qualified to answer, but I’ve compiled all of the very little advice that I know into a single place, in the hopes of making it a bit easier. The shorter version of this story is that candidly, it’s hard to visit a ..read more

One of the most common questions that I get by far and away is how people can come to Denmark to observe forest schools in action.  Sometimes it is curious parents, but often, the questions come from other educators around the world – I think at this point I’ve gotten notes from the US, from Japan, from Italy, from all around Eastern Europe, from Australia…truly, I know people globally seem to be drawn to the notion of how these schools that are based in the outdoors really run in real life.   I get the questions often enough that soon I’d like to get a Q+A post (Update – post is do ..read more

I know this blog hasn’t been the most updated… kind of cuts me to have it be that way.  But  in an attempt to maintain two blogs, and raise two children, and have a full time job, and change countries and buy house and who knows what else, I found that well, I didn’t really excel at the first two (and hopefully got a passable grade on the rest).  But we still have one toddler, and still get plenty of trees. Part of me thinks I should call a spade a spade and just shut the blogs down but I can’t seem to do it.  I can’t even log into our instagram for this account anymore, an ..read more

We’re off, off and away for a different kind of adventure. Lots of outdoors, but not quite as many forests, as we take off today for Jordan to see some of the treasures of Petra, the wide open seas, and some overnights in the desert.  Hopefully we’ll get a few shots along the way on our instagram – we’ll see you on the flip side ..read more