Outdoor School in the 2020s |
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Spring 2020
No Outdoor School sites in operation
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Global Pandemic!
Like regular school, Outdoor School was canceled for the season. Staff spent time engaged in professional development, as well as creating Outdoor School-themed curriculum that teachers could use with their now-online students. |
Fall 2020
No Outdoor School sites in operation
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Pandemic, continued.
Outdoor School staff provided online lessons and curriculum, a week at a time, to all 6th grade classes, as well as to the 7th graders who missed their opportunity the previous spring. Each student received a "science kit" full of equipment and supplies to engage in the online lessons. Students were given "homework" assignments that required them to find outside spaces near their homes to complete the lessons between online sessions with staff. Staff also engaged Student Leaders in online activities, enrichment, teaching skills enhancement, and social time. This model continued throughout the 2020-21 school year. |
Spring 2021
No Outdoor School sites in operation
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Pandemic, continued.
(a continuation of Fall 2020 programming) |
Fall 2021
No Outdoor School sites in operation
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Pandemic, continued.
Just before the Outdoor School season was set to begin, school districts eliminated the possibility of off-site field trips. To give every student a chance to be at an Outdoor School site in the spring, the program served every student in the fall, but at their own school. Students were taken to an outside space either directly on their school grounds or within a few blocks walking distance to engage in outdoor learning with Staff and Student Leaders. |
Spring 2022
Angelos, Canby Grove (@ Collins), Howard (@ Collins), Kuratli, Namanu, and the roving "River Team"
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Pandemic, continued.
Every student who was served in the fall now had the opportunity to travel to an Outdoor School site to complete their "week" of Outdoor School. Students spend the whole day, two days in a row at the site, working with the same team they did at their school in the fall. |
Fall 2022
Angelos, Collins, Kuratli, Namanu, Westwind
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Westwind site opens!
Among the COVID-19 considerations still in place: schools are cohorted at sites — wherever possible, each site is populated by students from a single school rather than mixing classes from across the region. |
Spring 2023
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