New Name, New Website!
Liza Lowe
Present: Sarah Wilson, Ellen Doris, Allyce Romaneck, Liza Lowe
Zoom: Landere Naisbitt, Mindy Beltramo, Jennifer Macdonald, Rachel Kennedy, Emily Calhoun, Johanna Booth-Minder, Ally, Wendy,
Resources: lending library relevant to nature-based education, donate duplicates of resources to the resource lending library, (book exchange for the chapter)
Introducing our new website! InsideOutside.org
→ If you haven’t already, join the Inside-Outside closed Facebook group where we can connect with one another, share resources, problem-solve, and support each other in a more private setting than the public Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/NENNECE/
→ Can we list your program/school name on the website - to provide others with a sense of who/what is out there? Send me (elowe@antioch.edu) an e-mail and let me know!
Local Chapters:
Vermont:
Upper Valley - eliza.minnucci@gmail.com (Eliza Minnucci)
Central Vermont - amy@northbranchnaturecenter.org (Amy Butler)
Champlain Valley - wrensnestvt@gmail.com (Suzanne Young)
New Hampshire:
Seacoast - emc1242@gmail.com (Emily Calhoun)
Monadnock Region - lizalowewildroots@gmail.com (Liza Lowe)
Maine:
Midcoast - info@juniperhillschool.org (Anne Stires)
Massachusetts:
MetroWest - jnorton@fcnsma.org (Jacey Norton)
Soon-to-Be Chapters:
Katahdin Region - (Marie Robinson)
Western Mass - (Rachel Kennedy)
Lakes Region - (Jennifer Macdonald & Mindy Beltramo)
Potential observations of schools/programs:
Perhaps add a tab on the website where folks can say they’re interested in hosting/participating…
List the programs that are members of the network and a star next to the programs who are willing/interested in hosting visitors. Up to individual people to then reach out to site where they are interested in visiting.
Tab with photos from different programs so people can see various aspects without have to visit in person.
Landere- Porcupine Bread Recipe (North Branch Nature Center - from In Bloom workshop)
Resources: lending library relevant to nature-based education, donate duplicates of resources to the resource lending library, (book exchange for the chapter).
Future Meeting Topics:
Working with Parents/Family Engagement
→ Risky play and the licensing aspects… expectations of safety outdoors
→Fires… safety with young children (NAYEC)
→ Accommodate infants through preschool in a home-based child care setting. Safe for all the age ranges.
→ How to move nature-based education up through the grades. (Middle School)
→ How to navigate the licensing...around risky play and safety. (Ask about the criteria and then show how the intent, around the criteria, is met.)
→ connecting with other teachers, in the public school and child care centers
→ Working with children with different abilities… behavioral problems, run aways, physical limitations.
Licensing
Getting Children Geared Up to be Outdoors in all Weather
Supportive Administrators
Discipline when working with children outdoors
Incorporating developmentally appropriate material/curriculum
To game or not to game... that is the question
Other thoughts:
Encourage folks to meet via Zoom… incorporate their local chapter meetings this way.
Enhancing nature knowledge… getting to know the places around us.
It would be helpful to know what the focus is of different chapters. This will help us know what potential work is.
Facebook event!!!! With the closed Facebook group (create a public event for the closed group) share here!
List the programs that are members of the network and a star next to the programs who are willing/interested in hosting visitors. Up to individual people to then reach out to site where they are interested in visiting.
2019/2020 meeting dates/times: (3rd Wednesday of the month)
Sept. 18th, Nov. 20th, March 18th, and June 17th (summer learning topic)
5:30-6:00 (meet in person at Antioch)
6:00-7:00 (Zoom) Local chapters can use this as a gathering time and meet before or after the Zoom meeting.
