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🍃Outdoor Learning Conference 2026 🍃 Currently working on my keynote and workshop!! Can't wait to return to beautiful Banff 💚 Will I see you there?

Pleased to offer a KEYNOTE presentation on Teacher Education at the IOCES2026 conference! Register for this FREE, online and open access conference by June 10: sciforum.net/event/IOCES2...

I'm getting more and more excited about this!

The 2026 Spring Course line up is here! Learn more and register today: outdoorlearning.com/spring-cours...

World Creativity & Innovation Week is a worldwide community dedicated to celebrating all forms of creativity. Check out the celebrations and register your own for 2026! wciw.org/wciw/

"Hot off the presses"! = NEW open access and published online. "Imaginative (un)learning in leadership education: how cognitive tools and community-based collaboration cultivate imaginations"--with Dr. Meaghan Dougherty doi.org/10.1108/JOLE...

A beautiful blustery day 💕

The 2026 Spring Course line up is here! Learn more and register today: outdoorlearning.com/spring-cours...

Honoured to celebrate outdoor learning with these amazing women! Join us March 10! Info: outdoorlearning.com/event/spring...

Developing a Sense of Place by Sparking Curiosity & Wonder: A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years Date: Feb 5 Location: Online Cost: $20.00 Presenters: Dr. Gillian Judson, Dr. Michelle Mckay, and Klara Redford @perfinker.bsky.social @mskred.bsky.social www.childcareoptions.ca/events/devel...

A focus on HEALTH. 💚 @outdoorlearningjd.bsky.social Learn more and register: outdoorlearning.com/health-2026/

Great first day with our Chilean visitors! A week of Imaginative Education learning with the CIRCE team 📚

Loved having the chance to share about good things happening in outdoor learning! #getoutside #walkingcurriculum [Principal Connections magazine, 2025, 3(2), pp. 44-45] Shout outs to Take Me Outside and the @outdoorlearningjd.bsky.social !

What a Fully Human K–12 Education Could Look Like substack.com/@losttools/n...

Magical day in the forest today #lovetherain

This! This winter, Natural Curiosity is offering a full lineup of introductory Indigenous language courses Courses are free for Indigenous learners, and non-Indigenous participants help support language revitalization through their registration. Learn more: www.naturalcuriosity.ca/indigenous-l...

Can't wait to keynote! ECEC ATA share.google/E8F0G1WXvAiX...

Had a fabulous time Friday engaging in Place-based and imaginative ecological practices with these stellar @sfueducation.bsky.social students! Burnaby Mountain Park is absolutely gorgeous #imaginED #walkingcurriculum for the win!

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 🎃 Stay safe everyone 🙏

So grateful my @sfueducation educational leadership students got to learn from this educational rockstar today! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us @craigmah.bsky.social 🙏 #imaginED

youtu.be/Akvbg83w-8o?... Thank you Sara & Nikki 💕 I'll be following this podcast!

Join me for this FREE online learning session with 5 inspiring Indigenous Educators this Truth and Reconciliation Day. Tuesday, September 30 4 PM PST / 7 PM ET 🧡 outdoorlearning.com/event/indige...

Proud to have written the Foreword for this great OPEN ACCESS text! Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

4 Season of Indigenous Learning The early bird registration for the 4 Seasons of Indigenous Learning 2025-2026 Course closes on September 30th! This year's course features an incredible group of Indigenous presenters. Check it out: outdoorlearning.com/event/anishi...

See you there? Sign up today! events.sfu.ca/event/45363-...

Calling all educators! Ready for grad school? Join me and other @sfueducation.bsky.social faculty at 6 PM Sept 24 on Zoom to discuss the SFU Faculty of Education September 2026 program offerings! events.sfu.ca/event/45363-....

Feeling pretty excited to have co-published with the amazing @perfinker.bsky.social ! 💚🌿🪵 If you are a facilitator of teacher learning, take a look - shifting focus to teacher beliefs & values is so impactful (plus we got to head outside!)

We did it @beverleybunker.bsky.social! Outdoor imaginative learning, cognitive tools and COLLAGE... Designing transformational professional learning opportunities: understanding participants’ experiences in an on-line and in-place imagination-focused self-study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to read this! Love all your work @robintransition.bsky.social

Calling all EARLY YEARS educators! Join me, Michelle and Klara this Fall for a deep-dive into Imaginative Ecological Education and walking practices for the early years! Information and early bird reg: outdoorlearning.com/event/a-walk...

Calling all Imaginative Education lovers! This is an amazing resource that enacts IE and has tons of resources ABOUT it as well. Deepen your understanding of IE 💕! DM me for a special access code for CIRCE community members Explore: Science is Weird www.scienceisweird.com

Calling all EARLY YEARS educators! Join me, Michelle and Klara this Fall for a deep-dive into Imaginative Ecological Education and walking practices for the early years! Information and early bird reg: outdoorlearning.com/event/a-walk...

Feeling super inspired by these leader-educator-researchers! They have done impactful and significant work that can make a real difference in schools. Big congrats to our MEd Leadership cohort!

Excited to offer the following outdoor learning course this Fall: A Walking Curriculum for the Early Years 🌿🍃 Peruse all the offerings and register here: outdoorlearning.com/2025/06/24/f... #walkingcurriculum #getoutside @michellemckay.bsky.social @mskred.bsky.social

Oh, the places she'll go 💕 #grad2025

Calling all BC/lower mainland educators! Thinking of some GRADUATE STUDIES in Education? Join us for this OPEN HOUSE. Get SNACKS, info and door prizes! SFU Surrey campus * May 29 * 4:30-6:30

Interested in taking your work in education to the next level? Find out about the K12 Ldership MEd at SFU. Join our team to learn how imagination drives transformative change and what tools you can use to make a difference! Info session SOON! @sfueducation.bsky.social events.sfu.ca/event/44596-....

Remembering Kieran Egan today. To the world, a great educational thinker, and writer. To me, also, a mentor and dear friend. Honoured everyday to share his great ideas in education. (May 22, 1940 - May 12, 2022)

Great day at the #OLconference25

So grateful for my learning and exploring in Banff at the #OLconference25 @beverleybunker.bsky.social @roomtoplay.bsky.social

And it begins! #OLConference25 Banff, you never disappoint. Excited about next few days of learning! @roomtoplay.bsky.social @wildlearning.bsky.social

This is cool! An invitation to young people (18 to 29 years old) to share a transformative story of how we can live and thrive together with Nature. Get info and participate: nbracer.eu/voices-of-th... #imaginED

I'm heading to beautiful Banff this week for the Outdoor Learning Conference and I couldn't be more excited! takemeoutside.ca/conference/ If you want to go next year, sign up quickly! It sells out FAST

Use tools of imagination--what we call cognitive tools in Imaginative Education circles--to engage minds in on-line learning Thank you Brandon Hendrickson! @scienceisweird.bsky.social www.educationthatinspires.ca/2020/05/26/h... #imaginED

Connecting the head and the heart in education--the power of imagination By @sfueducation.bsky.social alum Jennie Allester Harvey www.educationthatinspires.ca/2022/02/25/i... #imaginED

Thanks @michellemckay.bsky.social and these PEEL teachers for sharing! www.educationthatinspires.ca/2020/11/09/h... #walkingcurriculum #imaginED

www.educationthatinspires.ca/research/ Check out these research projects--how Imaginative Education, cognitive tools and kinds of understanding are engaging learners and cultivating imagination K-12

www.educationthatinspires.ca/2017/09/02/a... Cross-curricular walking activities for secondary that can help shape units. Thx @perfinker.bsky.social !