“Cameron was a valued outdoor school employee and he will be missed ... Conroy said all applicants are fingerprinted and run through a background check by the Oregon Department of Education.

But a lot of Outdoor School involves social and emotional growth, by being immersed in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by kids from different schools and backgrounds and learning in a different way.

Several states have either introduced or passed legislation aiming to ensure all students—regardless of economic background—have access to at least one outdoor school learning opportunity ...

Outdoor School isn't just a camp for sixth graders, a classic Oregon way of teaching squirrelly 12-year-olds about science, the environment and social survival. It's also a dirt-cheap way to give ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – More than six years after the Whittier Fire destroyed The Outdoor School at Rancho Alegre, the beloved environmental education program is close to reopening to ...

Miller, a teacher for Carroll County Outdoor School, chooses Newlyn Owen, 11, who immediately hops through the tall grass and water over to her. He peels off his scarf, earmuffs and hat ...

Carroll County residents asked the school board to save outdoor school, which would be eliminated if Superintendent Cynthia McCabe’s proposed budget for fiscal 2026 is approved. Of the 10 people ...

It’s a hot day in late August, as cast and crew members working on the movie, “Outdoor School,” rehearse and film a scene inside an Oregon City School District building. Director Ime N.

The current shortage of teachers and school staff has now found its way to the great outdoors — and the largest outdoor school in California run by San Diego county’s office of Education.

The Outdoor School at Camp Rancho Alegre in Santa Barbara County is reopening after a seven-year closure. The camp was destroyed in 2017 by the Whittier Fire and everything had to be rebuilt ...