Hosted by Lauren MacLean · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 84 episodes
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Teach Outdoors is a podcast show that explores the benefits and challenges of bringing learning outside of the traditional classroom setting. Topics range from the science behind the benefits of outdoor learning to practical tips for incorporating outdoor activities into lesson plans. Whether you're a teacher looking to enhance your students' learning experience or simply someone who loves spending time in nature with your kids, Teach Outdoors is the podcast for you. Tune in every month to expand your knowledge and be inspired to take your teaching outside!
Lauren MacLean hosts Teach Outdoors, a education show with 84 episodes published.
Nature Journaling Made Simple: Helping Kids Notice, Wonder, and Connect Nature journaling is much more than drawing outside. In this episode, Lauren sits down with Billie Jo Reid from Pine & Ponder Outdoors to explore ho
In this episode of Teach Outdoors , Lauren is joined by hope and climate communication expert Elin Kelsey for a powerful conversation about how we understand and talk about climate change—and what shifts when we focus on
Today, we’re beginning a brand-new series exploring climate change, sustainability, and environmental learning in BC schools. Over the next few episodes, we’ll dig into what these ideas can actually look like in real cla
In this special episode, I sit down with my good friend and colleague April Pikkarainen to share the story behind our first collaborative book, Learning with the Land: A Nature Playbook. We reflect on our early days work
What does it really look like to teach self-awareness… outdoors? In this first episode of the SEL Outdoors: One Competency at a Time series, I’m sharing how I scaffold self-awareness with my primary students using simple
On this episode of the Teach Outdoors podcast, I’m joined by Josée Bergeron—founder of Backwoods Mama and author of Beyond the Front Door: Embracing Nature for a Happier and Healthier Family. Josée is an outdoor parentin
Today we’re exploring something that feels simple… but is actually deeply transformative: curiosity . What does it really mean to be curious outdoors — not as a strategy, not as a checklist — but as a way of being? In th
In this episode of the Teach Outdoors podcast, I’m joined by Kelly Shuto—childhood friend, educator, and author of the What Does It Mean to… book series. We sit down to talk about our journey of co-writing the fourth boo
Play is often treated as something extra — something we squeeze in when the “real learning” is done. But what if play is actually essential? What if, for many children, play is a sanctuary? In this episode of the Teach O
In this episode, Lauren sits down with Dr. Mariana Brussoni—Professor at the University of British Columbia, Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, and lead scientist of the Outside Play Lab at BC Children’s H
In this episode of the Teach Outdoors Podcast, Lauren MacLean is joined by educator, writer, and author Carolyn Roberts , whose work centers on re-storying education through story, land-based learning, and relational way
Thrive Outside is back this January for its second year! This 5-week online group coaching program helps teachers build confidence and clarity in outdoor learning—through routines, curriculum connections, planning suppor
Today I’m chatting with Dr. Louise de Lannoy from Outdoor Play Canada —someone I’ve admired for years. I first heard Louise speak at Take Me Outside in Banff and later at the Breath of Fresh Air Summit, and every single
In this episode, I chat with Court Rustemeyer , an Alberta teacher, outdoor educator, and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow who was also recognized as EECOM’s Outdoor Educator of the Year . Court’s passion for
Welcome back to The Teach Outdoors Podcast! In this inspiring episode, host Lauren MacLean sits down with Devon Karchut , a pediatric physiotherapist and founder of Nature Play , an outdoor play and therapy program in Ca
In this episode of Teach Outdoors, Lauren sits down with Ontario educator Hailey Furster , the inspiring face behind The Early Years Inquirer on Instagram and Teachers Pay Teachers. With a passion for Kindergarten and ea
In this episode, I welcome back Kyra Stephenson , Nature-Based Learning Coach at Anna Murray-Douglass Academy in Rochester, New York. One year ago, we first talked about how she brought a nature-based learning (NBL) prog
September is a month of beginnings—new classrooms, new routines, and new opportunities to build relationships. In this episode, I sit down with Elsa Medina and Alisa Paul to talk about slowing down at the start of the sc
In this heartfelt and reflective episode, we dive deep into what it really means to nurture resilience, perseverance, and empathy in outdoor learning spaces. We explore how small steps – like starting with just 30 second
What does it mean to regulate with our students instead of for them? In this episode, I sit down with educators Alisa Paul and Elsa Medina to explore co-regulation through a social-emotional learning lens—grounded in nat
David Bryan
Keyboard player for Bon Jovi
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Deborah MacNamara
counselor, faculty · Neufeld Institute
1 appearance on this show
Mariana Brussoni
Professor at the University of British Columbia, Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, Investigator at the British Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institute · University of British Columbia
1 appearance on this show
Paul Koberstein
Cascadia Times
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