The Humane Education Coalition’s podcast, Connected Roots, is an acclaimed venue for humane news, insights, education tips, resources, and more. Connected Roots features inspiring interviews and stories from experts in the field of humane education.
It was a pleasure to speak with Victoria Hackett, MEd, the founder of Outdoor-Classrooms.com, a virtual classroom for natural teachers who want to reconnect children with nature. Outdoor Classrooms offers online Master Classes, on-site training, retreats, and more. Their mission is to inspire teachers and parents to create one-of-a-kind outdoor classrooms and nature-based curriculum on a shoe-string budget. Victoria joins us on Connected Roots to share helpful tips for developing outdoor learning spaces, ways to build relationships with teachers and schools, and much more. LISTEN HERE.
ABOUT VICTORIA:
My mission is for every child in every school to have access to an Outdoor Classroom. Therefore, I inspire educators to teach outdoors and lead an on-line virtual community of Natural Teachers all over the world to create their own Outdoor Classroom story.
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