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 superintendents and their employees to 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 schools 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.
Everyone does it a little differently.
Yet, we all seem to agree:
The statistics on the state of health for our youth and school professionals are alarming, and many unfortunate trends continue.
WHY?
Too many educational leaders are out of bandwidth.
Leaders have been trying to juggle project and people management since before the COVID-19 pandemic. We all admitted that COVID-19 exacerbated and pulled to light some of the challenges involved in running public schools. Instead of giving them meaningful, on-the-ground, lend-a-reliable-hand and take-something-off-my-plate help, we gave them more scrutiny, more blame, more hoops to jump through, more curses, and more empty seats to fill. Families who can are not enrolling their children. Teachers are quitting, principals are quitting. There are too few well-trained people to take over, and not enough time or resources to train them.
Many educational leaders are better at hiding their distress than at not feeling any, and it’s taking a toll.
Late nights with little or disrupted sleep.
Few kind words for or from the spouse or children.
Poor eating and exercise habits.
Lack of clarity and reactive decision-making.
Distress in the leadership team
makes work more effortful,
disrupts teamworking,
wastes money, and
cascades
into schools and classrooms,
where it destroys psychological and physical safety,
and takes the learning environment and our students to rock-bottom.
How we help.
We help stop burnout among educational professionals and across school systems.
Do more with less.
More improvement with less effort.
More collaboration with less hand-holding.
More clarity with less deliberation.
More joy with less stress.
More precious moments with less sacrifice.
More sleep with less guilt.
Our Unique Value and Quality/Brand [Promise/Guarantee]
We have blended our ecological, educational, and leadership expertise and leveraged our access to research across industries to bring educational leaders a unique and distinctly human approach to some of education’s most persistent challenges.
Educational leaders benefit from
knowledge and strategies from seven (7) different professional fields, curated for the education industry from our expertise as educators and directors
scaffolded content in biologically effective ways for learning
a process to help scale human-centered individual outcomes to school and division outcomes to community outcomes
We’ve lived through burnout, and we live these strategies.
If we can’t help you with a new, human-centered way to see and approach your human challenges, we’ll make it right.
Join us when you’re ready for a human-centered approach.
Supercharge Schools
Stop burnout. For you, your employees, and even your students.
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 and directors of
small to medium-sized schools and divisions who are
prioritizing staff & student wellness or
experiencing challenges building a culture that includes outdoor education
Wondering what you might be missing?
Witnessed at the AASA National Conference on Education, from a new superintendent to two retired, consulting superintendents:
“So guys, tell me. When does it slow down? Like, I mean, when does it get easier, when do you get your feet under you and everything slows down? Three years? Five?…
…. What do you mean, ‘It doesn’t?’”
— Anonymous, new District Superintendent from Missouri
The work won’t change, but your life can if you approach the fire differently.
Check out and apply for our new Wellness-to-Work Mini-Course and Coaching packages for K-12 District and School Leaders. Pilot-rate pricing available for a limited time.
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 volunteer-based habitat restoration 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 parks or specific projects to improve health outcomes among youth and school communities? Give us a call.
A recent superintendent commenting about a struggling school:
“When I was principal of that school, we had [great outcomes and a good culture]. Ever since covid, they’ve been struggling. I’ve got good teachers, but morale is terrible. We’ve tried all kinds of things to help them. Other divisions are [recovering], why can’t we?”
— Anonymous, Division Superintendent from Virginia
When you see positive outcomes or have gotten them yourself, you want to scale them. But you can’t simply put someone forth as an example and expect replication. In fact, get your order of operations wrong, and you might make the problem worse.
Call for a Demo to see how you could put our Impact Map to use.
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