Professional Development & Coaching for Teachers
Engagement-Based Academic Improvement Through
The Outdoor Classroom Growth Pathway
Deeply Rooted Outdoor Education helps schools improve student engagement, strengthen critical thinking, and support academic achievement using the outdoor spaces they already have.
Through The Outdoor Classroom Growth Pathway, teachers learn a clear, repeatable framework for turning schoolyards, sidewalks, courtyards, gardens, and everyday campus spaces into purposeful outdoor classrooms. This approach helps educators build routines, guide inquiry, connect learning across content areas, and support students in applying skills toward academic and assessment success.
This is not outdoor learning as an extra activity. It is a standards-aligned approach to helping students become more active, engaged, and successful learners.
Through this framework, teachers learn how to:
- Use existing outdoor spaces as structured learning environments
- Build simple routines that make outdoor instruction manageable
- Increase student engagement and on-task participation
- Guide students through observation, questioning, investigation, and evidence-based thinking
- Connect outdoor classroom experiences to science, literacy, math, and other content areas
- Support academic vocabulary, concept mastery, and assessment readiness
- Bring learning outdoors without adding another disconnected program to their workload
After teachers are trained, students will experience:
- More active participation in learning Stronger curiosity, focus, and engagement
- Opportunities to investigate, discuss, and apply concepts
- Real-world connections to classroom standards
- Stronger observation, reasoning, and analytical thinking skills
- Learning that feels meaningful, memorable, and connected to the world around them