OLD GROWTH KIDS
Forest School - Lake Samish, WA
Learning to care for ourselves, each other & our environment through unfiltered nature play
Teacher Kylie’s Story
Meet Kylie - the Director & Head Teacher of Old Growth Kids. Kylie has been tirelessly pushing forward the Forest School Movement since 2016 with the intention of bringing every child the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. After years teaching in Forest Schools, Kylie launched Kylie’s Nature Immersion and later, Old Growth Kids. Motivated by the multitude of enhanced benefits Kylie saw her students experiencing after moving outside of the classroom, she was inspired to go back to school to contribute to the growing research. Kylie now holds one of the only Graduate degrees in Forest Schooling in the world, an M.Ed with a certificate in Nature-Based Early Childhood Education from Antioch University.
Services
Forest Preschool Program-Lake Samish, WA
After-School Nature Immersion Program Coming Soon
Forest School Training
University level Nature-Based Education Program Development
Nature-Based Staff Training for Public & Private Schools
Consulting Services
Forest Preschool
A new type of education has taken flight in America. Right beneath our noses - schools have shifted their classrooms outside, ditching walls all together. With incredible growth taking place all over the world, this innovative type of schooling is referred to as: Forest School! Research is surfacing showing multi-faceted benefits for children who learn outside the classroom. Not to mention, the life-long bond students form with their local trails, plants, and wildlife, leaving them equipped to be environmental stewards for life.
If we are looking for models of self-sustaining communities, we need look no further than an old-growth forest.
- Braiding Sweetgrass