This storytellers panel will highlight approaches to bring outdoor preschools to all children, with an eye toward equity, partnership, and collective action. The panel will be moderated by Kit Harrington, who founded the Washington Nature Preschool Association that successfully advocated for the first licensing regulations for outdoor preschools in the US. Panelists include: Megan Patterson, Head of School for the Worldmind Nature Immersion School in Denver, Colorado, which completed the first outdoor preschool and kindergarten pilot program with the State of Colorado this year; Aliza Yair, Program Specialist with the Washington State Department of Early Learning, who is overseeing Washington’s Outdoor Preschool Pilot Program; and Lynny Brown, Graduate Research Fellow at the Oregon Health and Outdoors Initiative, who is leading the development of an Equity Toolkit for Outdoor Preschools and a Policy Action Plan.
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