NLI Newsletter – May / June 2024
NLI Hosts DCDEE Regional Meetings
Hosted four regional meetings in NC.
Yale Climate Connections Podcast
North Carolina Welcomes the Emergence of 13-Year Cicadas!
Gardening With Young Children Certificate Course (GWYC)
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate (ECOLE)
Let’s Go Outdoors! Webinar
Let’s Go Outdoors! Webinar By: Natural Learning Initiative A conversation about childcare outdoor play and learning during the pandemic The Natural Learning Initiative presented the webinar in partnership with Be Active Kids and NCDHHS Division of Child...
Outdoor Learning Environment at A Child’s Haven: Jon Fritz Design Review
Outdoor Learning Environment at A Child’s Haven: Jon Fritz Design Review By: Natural Learning Initiative Jon Fritz, landscape designer, presents the outdoor learning environment design for A Child’s Haven with knowledge gained through the Natural Learning...
The Children & Nature Movement
The Children & Nature Movement By: Gear 6 Productions The Children & Nature Network is championing a world-wide movement to reconnect children, families, and communities to the natural world: for their health and for the health of our planet. Produced by Gear...
OMO dirt is good
OMO dirt is good By: Jerome Gonfond OMO is dedicated to showing you that Dirt is Good – especially when it’s the result of your kids going out into the world to have fun, explore, learn and experience the very best the world around us has to offer. Watch Next! Outdoor...
North Carolina Welcomes the Emergence of 13-Year Cicadas
NLI North Carolina Welcomes the Emergence of 13-Year Cicadas The emergence of 17-year and 13-year cicadas in the Eastern US is currently captivating the attention of nature enthusiasts. Here in North Carolina, the 13-year cicadas are making their grand appearance....
Early Childhood Outdoor Play and Learning Spaces (ECOPALS) – Train the Trainer
NLI Early Childhood Outdoor Play and Learning Spaces (ECOPALS) – Train the Trainer Early Childhood Outdoor Play and Learning Spaces (ECOPALS): Train the Trainer (TtT) equips participants with knowledge, skills, practical examples, and content resources to...
Natural Learning Initiative Resources
Early childhood outdoor play and learning resources.
NLI Joins 20th Anniversary Celebration of Grow Up Great
NLI NLI Joins 20th Anniversary Celebration of Grow Up Great NLI celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the PNC Foundation’s signature Grow Up Great program with a grant announcement ceremony at Brentwood Head Start, Wilson, North Carolina. The award of $125,000 will be...
NLI-ECHO (Early Childhood Health Outdoors) Training Workshop
NLI NLI-ECHO (Early Childhood Health Outdoors) Training Workshop NLI conducted a 3-day training workshop in early April with the Grow Outdoors SC (South Carolina) ECHO (Early Childhood Health Outdoors) design team – a unit within the National Wildlife Federation...
NLI Newsletter – March / April 2024
NLI conducted a 3-day training workshop
Training with SC ECHO design team.
NLI Website’s New Look
NLI celebrated the 20th Anniversary
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate Course (ECOLE)
Free the Kids – Dirt is Good
Free the Kids – Dirt is Good By: PersilUK Who spends more time outside, a child… or a maximum-security prisoner? Watch this film to find out. This video looks inside the mind’s of prison inmates to find out exactly how much their outdoor time means to them. The...
CHILD IN NATURE
CHILD IN NATURE By: Natural Learning Initiative The Child In Nature (2006, 16 min.) features Robin Moore discussing NLI’s approach to the Montessori philosophy of outdoor design and the spatial transition between indoors and outdoors. Also featured are Montessori...
This Is Me : Article 31 and a Child’s Right to Play
This Is Me : Article 31 and a Child’s Right to Play By: International Play Association (IPA World) On February 1st 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expanded the world’s understanding of the child’s right to play by adopting a General Comment on...
Partners for Environmental Justice — Building Community Around Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Wetlands
Partners for Environmental Justice — Building Community Around Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Wetlands By: Partners for Environmental Justice North Carolina Walnut Creek, 2000, is a grassroots project designed to extend to Southeast Raleigh – a predominately African...
What nature teaches children | Nilda Cosco | TEDxRaleigh
What nature teaches children | Nilda Cosco | TEDxRaleigh By: TEDx Talks Watch this talk if you are interested in the well-being of young children. Children spend most of their waking hours in child care every day where they can play outdoors and learn from nature....
Wolfpack Wellness Research Web Series: “Preventing Obesity by Design”
Wolfpack Wellness Research Web Series: “Preventing Obesity by Design” By: Wolfpack Wellness In November of 2023, NLI collaborated with the NC State University Department of Horticultural Science to deploy nature-based design interventions in two North...
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The NLI Website’s New Look
NLI The NLI Website’s New Look You may have noticed some changes to the NLI website… We are proud to unveil a new, modern style designed to provide clear and legible content on all screen sizes, including phones! The new style has been developed with universal web...
Institutes & Symposia
Early childhood outdoor play and learning resources.
NLI Newsletter – January / February 2024
Play Chastain
Design programming for new playground.
Exploring Cool Season Plant Growth
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate Course
Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (POEMS) Course
Childcare Outdoor Learning Environments Quality Tool (COLEQT) Course
Play Chastain
Project NLI Play Chastain Play Chastain was part of the 20-year Master Plan for Atlanta’s Chastain Park. As a member of the design team, with Harrison Design Associates and the Atlanta Taskforce on Play (now Play Atlanta), NLI led the design programming effort to...
NLI Receives DHEC Appreciation Coin
NLI NLI Receives DHEC Appreciation Coin NLI Receives DHEC Appreciation Coin Presented to NLI by Agency Director, Dr. Simmer Recognizes partners addressing the health and safety of South Carolina residents, improving the environment in which we live, and working for...
NC Crunch
NLI NC Crunch NC Crunch this Fall celebrated NC Farm to School and Early Care and Education Month by hosting events at more than a dozen Wake County Childcare including Bambino’s Playschool and A Safe Place Child Enrichment Center, with programs that support healthy...
Grow Outdoors South Carolina Launch
NLI Grow Outdoors South Carolina Launch Grow Outdoors SC, launched at the MEGA Child Development Center, Gilbert, SC (12-11-23), is a unique partnership of two SC state agencies (Social Services – DSS, and Health & Environmental Control – DHEC), three...
Happy Holidays 2023
Happy Holidays from the Natural Learning Initiative! Join us as we celebrate nature play and learning with our holiday postcard.
Supporting Naturalized Outdoor Play and Learning Environments in North Carolina Child Care Facilities
NLI Supporting Naturalized Outdoor Play and Learning Environments in North Carolina Child Care Facilities During the Fall of 2023, NLI collaborated with Horticultural Science, NC State, to implement nature-based design interventions in two North Carolina child-care...
NLI Newsletter – November / December 2023
Grow Outdoors South Carolina Launch
Unique partnership for outdoor learning.
NLI collaborates with NC State Horticultural Science Design-Build
Eating and Learning with Apples
NLI Holiday Card
OLE at Glencoe Mill Village
Project NLI OLE at Glencoe Mill Village The Outdoor Learning Environment in Glencoe Mill Village Historic District, Burlington, NC, was initiated by the Alamance County Partnership for Children in 2012 as an innovative, community-based, nature play and learning area...
The Catawba Nation iswa Early Learning Center
Project NLI The Catawba Nation iswa Early Learning Center The Catawba Nation, iswa Early Learning Center is working with NLI to naturalize their outdoor play and learning environment and make it more expressive of the iswa culture (iswa means “river...
North Carolina Division of Child Development Early Education
NLI North Carolina Division of Child Development Early Education In 2011, Creating a Supportive Network was successfully implemented in North Carolina as a collaborative project of the North Carolina Division of Child Development Early Education (NC-DCDEE) and the...
NLI Newsletter – October 2023
The Catawba Nation, iswa Early Learning Center
Naturalizing outdoor play and learning.
Examining Bugs and Plant Growth
NC-DCDEE and NLI Collaboration!
OLE at Glencoe Mill Village
Children’s Rights to a Healthy Future
NLI Children’s Rights to a Healthy Future Children’s right to a healthy future made historic progress in August 2023 when a group of Montana youth won a case re-affirming this right (Held vs. State of Montana), as covered by a 1972 amendment to the Montana state...
NLI’s Community of Interest
NLI NLI’s Community of Interest Thank you for taking part in NLI’s “community of interest” (COI) by subscribing to the Natural Learning Initiative Newsletter and using NLI resources! Subscribers like you are a diverse group based in 173 countries (see Google...
Texas Tech Colleague Wins 2023 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Research
NLI Texas Tech Colleague Wins 2023 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Research NLI Colleague Nazia Afrin Trina, MLA Student at Texas Tech University, was the recipient of the Award of Excellence in the Research Category for her work on “The Play Value of Plants.”...
NLI Newsletter – September 2023
Children’s Rights to A Healthy Future
Montana youth win case re-affirming rights.
NLI Community of Interest
Designing Early Childhood Outdoor Environments Certificate Course
NLI Newsletter – January 2023
Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve
The regenerative power of nature continues to inspire NLI’s passion for restoring biodiversity.
Ross Park Nature Play and Exploration Trail
NLI’s Early Childhood Professional Development Program is on a roll!
Need and Interest in Nature Prescriptions
NLI Newsletter – August 2023
2023 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career and Organization Awards
Awarded to Robin Moore and the Natural Learning Initiative (NLI).
NLI Shorts! Weeding, Planting, & Watering
Early Childhood Outdoor Learning Environments Certificate Course
Designing Early Childhood Outdoor Environments Certificate Course
