We believe that effective and inspirational educators can  enhance curriculum through the lens of outdoor and place-based education, in order to better prepare our students for the serious environmental and social challenges of their future. Our students and faculty are working to restore and create connectivity in natural areas on our campus through increased habitat and biodiversity, striving to better understand the many ways our activities impact our environment. Through outdoor place-based education, students find an intrinsic motivation for learning, which then has authenticity and real-life applications. Students are calmer, more engaged, and physically healthier when they learn outdoors.

We believe that outdoor place-based education also connects the school to the surrounding community via service-learning projects that help us meet our mission to develop patient leaders and engaged citizens. Teaching outdoors creates a more beautiful, safe, and purposeful school day, and establishes both a profound understanding of the complexities of the natural world and the intellectual tools to be part of future solutions.