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.
We make decisions and give our lives to help them grow to be happy, healthy, and successful.
Everyone does it a little differently.
Yet, we all seem to agree:
The statistics on the current state of health for our youth and school professionals is alarming.
Our systems-based perspective points towards fundamental truths of human development and leadership:
Too many educational leaders are out of bandwidth.
Their distress
makes their work more effortful,
disrupts teamworking, and
cascades into schools and classrooms.
It ultimately disrupts the psychological and physical safety of the learning environment.
Download our article to see some of the statistics, and our conviction that regular and intentional education outdoors is no longer an option, but a necessity.
How we help.
We help stop burnout among educational professionals and across school systems.
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
And we’ve lived these strategies.
Join us when you’re ready for a human-centered approach.
Supercharge Schools
Stop burnout. For you, your employees, and 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?
If you’ve ever said or thought something like this, you’re not alone.
“Yeah, I don’t really know that my wife misses me. It’s been a long time since we were able to have fun together.”
— Anonymous, new District Superintendent from Missouri
But will you choose to try a different way?
Check out and apply for our new Wellness-to-Work Mini-Course and Coaching packages for K-12 School and District Leaders
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.
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