Name: The Power of a Relational, Values-Driven Approach to Building Adult Capacity for Outdoor Early Learning
Start: 2025-05-09T14:00:00-0600
End: 2025-05-09T15:15:00-0600

Welcome to the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference

Friday May 9, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT

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From 2021-2023, the Lawson Foundation supported eight diverse projects working to build adult capacity to support outdoor early learning. The work targeted professional learning, early learning and child care programs, and multi-sector influencers of outdoor learning (e.g., Indigenous knowledge keepers, government officials, nonprofit partners). This workshop will share 4 Calls to Action based on taking a relational, values-driven approach to systems change. We will share our learning about effective approaches to foundational components of change-making: professional learning, outdoor learning spaces, parent engagement, and organizational policy change, and we will reflect on differences in how Indigenous ways were honoured in this work. We offer practical, actionable considerations to support early learning leaders (e.g., post-secondary faculty; early learning directors, managers, and pedagogical leaders) to gain a more nuanced understanding of change-making for outdoor learning.

Speakers

Christine Alden

Program Director / Fondation Lawson, Directrice de programme, Lawson Foundation

Christine Alden, M.Ed., Ph.D., has worked in the fields of early child development and education for thirty years. She began her career as an elementary teacher in Latin America, which catalyzed her interest in child development. Over the last twenty years, she has worked in early... Read More →

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