Updates
Less plastic, more trees: New effort seeks to reinvent preschool playgrounds and capture kids’ imaginations
Michelle Dalbotten, the energetic director of a Northglenn child care center called Step by Step, doesn’t like her playground. Something about it just doesn’t work.
Recently, Dalbotten found a solution in the form of a new grant program called the ECHO initiative, which aims to reinvent more than 100 preschool and child care playgrounds across Colorado over the next few years. Think mud kitchens, looping tricycle trails, vegetable gardens, stages, shady reading nooks and dump truck construction zones.
3 POD Wake Co. Demonstration Sites win Raleigh Environmental Awards in Urban Agriculture Category
Congratulations to 3 of our POD Wake County Demonstration Sites: A Kind Garden, A Safe Place Child Enrichment Center, and Pam’s School of Raleigh!! The City of Raleigh has presented them each with an Environmental Award in the Urban Agriculture category.
For more information: https://www.raleighnc.gov/environment/news/content/CorNews/Articles/2017EnvironmentalAwards.html
Events
Announcing Two Professional Education Certificate Programs on Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments
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What Nature Teaches Children
For TEDxRaleigh 2016 Dr. Nilda Cosco talks about the opportunities the childcare setting offers to provide children with the many benefits of a daily connection with nature.