Why outdoor classrooms outperform traditional ones on every measure we care about
What ten years of K–6 outdoor learning have shown us about attention, retention, social regulation, and the measures that schools actually report on.
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Long-form essays on outdoor education, Permacognitive Education, and the practice of teaching with the land.
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What ten years of K–6 outdoor learning have shown us about attention, retention, social regulation, and the measures that schools actually report on.
Permacognitive education is how we describe the pedagogy that grounds nature-based learning in cognitive science — what it means, how it differs from outdoor education, and why we chose the term.
Nature-based learning is a phrase that gets used in three or four mutually contradictory ways. Here is the distinction we draw, and why it matters for the schools we work with.