Taking Learning Outside 2025-26 Courses

Welcome Educators

Discover how to turn your schoolyard into a dynamic space for curiosity, connection, and hands-on learning. Taking Learning Outside is a year-long professional learning series designed to help educators integrate outdoor experiences into everyday instruction. Each session explores practical ways to teach science, stewardship, and sustainability through topics such as birds, native plants, school gardens, and urban tree canopy.

Over the 2025-26 academic year, the Taking Learning Outside Series offers multiple sessions (both in-person and online) that cover a wide range of topics and grade levels. In-person sessions will happen at various locations across SW Washington. Sign up for one session, or sign up for multiple!

All sessions are free to register and offer STEM Clock Hours upon completion.

The Taking Learning Outside Series is a partnership of the Lower Columbia Nature Network, Pacific Education Institute, Lower Columbia School Gardens, Master Gardener Program at Washington State University Extension, Washington Science Teachers Association, and ESD 112. 

Please see the details for each course offered and follow the appropriate registration links. 

Dates of courses available:

• 12/9/25
• 1/21/26
• 2/26/26
• 3/10/26
• 4/22/26
• 5/21/26