Forest Schools Canada, Nepean, ON

Forest School Canada (FSC) launched in the Spring of 2012 as an education initiative of the ‘Child and Nature Alliance of Canada’, by hosting a series of professional development workshops.

In early 2012 FSC approached training providers in the UK to help conceptualize, plan and deliver a Canadian model of teacher education programs, starting with a course we’re calling the ‘Forest and Nature School Practitioners’ Course’. This course is equivalent to the Level 3 FS Training Course in the UK, but has been adapted greatly for a Canadian context. Since the summer 2012 FSC has been working with Jon Cree from Bishops Wood Centre and Chair of the UK ‘Forest School Association’ for the development of this course. The first pilot courses were delivered in the summer of 2013, three more pilot courses are scheduled for the spring and summer of 2014.