Nationwide, our educators, school staff, and families are struggling - disconnected from their own natural rhythms and each other.
It is putting our children’s futures at risk.
We are reconnecting school admins and educators to their health, joy, and sense of purpose, so that they may do the same for our children.
Explore Nature By Nurture, LLC partners with school superintendents of small to medium-sized districts and heads of independent schools to stop burnout and improve the wellness of employees, so they save money and students benefit from happy, healthy, high-quality instructional environments. From rooting out causes of burnout, absenteeism and misbehavior to building an MTSS to improve staff instructional quality, our unique approach will bring relief to your educators, leadership teams, and students in a way that defies the pressing demands of the industry.
Bridging the Disconnect
What fuels us?
Like you, we have and care for children.
We make decisions and give our lives to help them grow to be happy, healthy, and successful. Everyone does it a little differently.
Even so, at Explore Nature By Nurture, we are all in agreement.
The statistics on the current state of health for our youth and schools are alarming.
It concerns us.
And we have insights and expertise to do something about it.
Too many well-meaning educational leaders are out of bandwidth.
We’re helping to reduce their stress and redirect them, so they can effectively do more with less effort and fewer resources.
Download our article to see some of the statistics and why we believe a school culture that can accommodate education outdoors is no longer an option, but a necessity.
Join us.
Supercharge Schools
Attract and retain your best employees to save money and create high-quality instructional environments.
6% lower 5-year educator attrition rates
76% increase in job satisfaction for educators
100% improvement in wellness metrics for educators
89% of educators with higher student engagement
We work with:
school superintendents, division leaders, and directors of small to medium-sized public and private schools and divisions who are prioritizing staff & student wellness. Our approach is also complementary to curriculum that seeks to address environmental stewardship and sustainability goals.
Wondering what you might be missing? Let’s chat.
Connect Schools with Local Resources
Leverage the talents and resources in your community to provide quality instruction to students, professional training and mentoring to educators, and engage students in standards-aligned community projects and service learning.
Get your school communities involved in projects like #ReviveLYH: one of our projects with Lynchburg City Parks & Recreation.
Customized, community focused professional training and mentorship for educators and educators-in-training
100% 5-year retention rate for volunteer educators
Dozens of standards-aligned activities and frameworks
130+ families engaged through a single revision of educational programming
We work with:
educational teams from schools and local parks who want to engage their students and communities through healthy, restorative work.
Wondering how to leverage your parks or specific projects to improve health outcomes among youth and school communities? Give us a call.
Build Healthy Schools
We support the development of schools that seek to be proactive in laying foundations for staff health & wellness, and that expect to leverage outdoor learning in their curriculum.
We support the goals of a new early childhood center and school being developed in the Lynchburg-Amherst area.
Anticipated opening in 2026.
We work with:
heads of schools and communities of families who are passionate about providing a safe and healthy learning environment for their kids, and who value the use of natural environments in preparing children for future success.
Wondering if our approach is right for you and yours? Let’s talk.
“…They are having a blast - again thank you so much for this program - it's really amazing for my kids :)…”
— A Satisfied Parent of ages 7 and 10