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Teachers, Try This: Take Classroom Lessons Into the Wild

By Kaylee Domzalski & Jaclyn Borowski — February 6, 2025 2:18
Fourth grade students visit The Superior School Forest in Foxboro, Wis., on Oct. 28, 2024.

Lori Danz is a biology teacher turned school forest coordinator in Superior, Wisc., where every district has a school forest of its own. Danz works with teachers across the district to adapt their lessons into hands-on learning experiences for students in the outdoors.

Here, she explains how that works, and how teachers without a school forest of their own might try something similar.

Kaylee Domzalski is a video producer for Education Week.
Jaclyn Borowski is the director of photography and videography for Education Week.

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