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Outdoor Learning Environments Institute - 2009

Studying a snailRegistration for 2009 is closed, please check back for announcements about 2010. We will be posting a slideshow of the 2009 event shortly.

Outside is in! - Play and Learn Outdoors
An Outdoor Learning Environments Institute for
Early Childhood Educators

Co-sponsored by Smart Start of Buncombe County and
The NC Arboretum.

This 2-day, interactive Institute is intended for early childhood professionals whose programs are located in the following counties: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and the Cherokee Reservation.

The Institute will offer a range of hands-on outdoor sessions provided by leaders in the field on:

  • Developmentally appropriate activities for outdoor learning environments;
  • Simple outdoor learning environment enhancements; and
  • Regulatory requirements related to outdoor learning environments and the feasibility of meeting those requirements while facilitating children's play and learning outdoors.

 

 

 

   
 

Supporting school readiness programs for young children and their families.
84 Coxe Avenue, Suite 1A, Asheville, NC 28801 ~ phone: 828.285.9333 ~ fax: 828-285-9933
www.smartstart-buncombe.org

   
 

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