There are more families considering alternative schooling options over their traditional neighborhood school district. Meanwhile, enrollment at a tiny, private school in Berrien County has exploded ...

Forest schools are on the rise, nearly doubling in size each year. In 2020, there were 585 registered in the United States. By the 2022-2023 school year, there were over 800. This increasingly-popular ...

Two home-school moms grew their outdoor education school from three students to over 3,000 across six states in just a few years as parents pulled their kids public schools in droves. Amber Brown and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A number of factors have influenced a large shift from traditional learning within the past few years, and for a growing number of American families, nature is becoming the ...

Imagine your children starting their morning sitting on stumps under the shady canopy of a Grandfather Oak. They are having a discussion about how their day will be. The possibility of going to a ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

The forest as a classroom is not a utopia from another time nor a new trend. In 1950, Denmark was the first country to promote this type of school, even to take pride in putting children outside the ...

There aren’t desks at Angel Oak Nature Academy. There aren’t metal chairs, pencils or plastic toys, either. When you drive up to the secluded Okatie property, there isn’t even a building. Instead, ...