Who We Are
Meet Danielle Racke
Founder & Principal Consultant
For 20 years, Danielle has built her expertise conducting ecological research, incorporating the outdoor environment into high-impact learning programs, and training others to do each. Now, driven from the lab, field, and classrooms into larger systems, she is focused on helping K-12 schools leverage the brain-body connection to get better results for their students, staff, and communities. She is passionate that children and the adults who surround them should benefit from the knowledge of how to live well and learn well.
Danielle could talk for days about ecology, the links between natural phenomena and our health and learning, creative lesson planning, and the antics of her young daughter. She also loves hiking and camping, reading (paper!) to learn and relax, playing board games, and sports.
Danielle spent much of her childhood hearing and complying to the phrase:
“Go outside and play.”
She has always attributed her professional and personal successes to these words. Many other successful leaders - whether they included the outdoors in their careers or not - heard them as well.
Since beginning the search for healthy options for her own child’s care and education, Danielle has come to know why and how her outdoor experiences shaped her successes. And why outdoor time is no longer optional in schools, but desperately needed to help correct the physiological deficits that have accumulated in many built environments.
“There is a physiological assault on our nation’s youth that is crippling their development and risking their futures. It’s an unacceptable situation.”
— Danielle Racke, Founder and Principal Consultant
