Credits

Outdoor Infrastructure Working Group Participants

The dedicated volunteers from around the country, listed alphabetically below, participated in the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative’s Outdoor Infrastructure Working Group (WG#2) between June and December 2020. The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all of the organizations and individuals who are collaborating to make this Initiative possible.

Working Group Leaders

  • Tamar Barlev, MLA-MCP, San Francisco Unified School District

  • Sharon Danks, MLA-MCP, Green Schoolyards America

  • Claire Latané, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP, CalPoly Pomona

  • Naomi Stern, San Mateo County Office of Education

  • Nancy Striniste, MLD, EarlySpace, LLC

  • Andra Yeghoian, MBA, San Mateo County Office of Education

 

Working Group Participants

  • Sim Barrow, MS, Fayetteville Independent School District

  • Sydney Belyayev, MLA, Big Green

  • Rose Brusaferro, PhD, Sustainability Education, Prescott College

  • Michelle Byron

  • Daniela Casanello Frisius, PhD, Ecoplan

  • Joseph Centoni, Cabrillo Unified School District

  • Sean Corriel, M Arch, MBA, Spatial Projects

  • Evan Dintaman, BLA, ASLA, Out Teach

  • Gwendolyn Dora Cohen, Studio Outside

  • Rebecca Gandy, The Waldorf School of DuPage

  • Anna Harrison, ASID, LEED, AP, ALEP, Aedis Architects

  • Kimberly E. Hale, MA, CCC-SLP, LOL in Nature, LLC, TherapyTech, Inc.

  • Lisa Howard, MLA, Bay Tree Design

  • Cindi Hron, MFA, MLA, Susquehanna Greenway Partnership

  • Elena Juodisius, ASLA

  • Arlene Marturano, PhD, SC Garden-Based Learning Network

  • Michelle Mathis, MS, Learning Landscapes Design, LLC

  • Michelle Niedermeier, PA IPM Program, Penn State University

  • Jennifer L. Nitzky, RLA, ASLA, ISA Certified Arborist, Studio HIP

  • Kathy Provenzano, MA, Davis Elementary School, Austin Independent School District

  • Kara Rubio, MPH, Women for a Healthy Environment

  • Cara Sclafani, MBA, D3 Green Schools

  • Tahereh Sheerazie, EnrichLA

  • Lynn Shelton, Bright School

  • Donnan Stoicovy, State College Friends School

  • Katie Summers, MLA, TBG Partners

  • Jane Tesner Kleiner, RLA, nature+play designs

  • Rhiannon Texara, Gensler

  • Carla Thomas

  • Mirem Villamil, Edible Schoolyard NYC

  • Kalle Waterhouse, PLA, Out Teach

  • Atiya Wells, Backyard Basecamp and BLISS Meadows

  • Sammy Wren, Out Teach

  • Evan "Ash" Young, Vermont Wilderness School

  • Cathy Yuhas, High Tech High School, Hudson County Schools of Technology

Reviewers from the Equity Working Group

  • Candice Dickens-Russell, DoGoodery

  • Celeste Royer, MA, MA, Ten Strands

  • Betsy Ukeritis, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Reviewers from the Health Working Group

  • Eric M. Cherry, MS, Hexagon Environmental

  • Sarah Gill, MPP

  • Fred Goldstein, PhD, Accountable Health, LLC

  • Christina Vassallo, MSN, FNP-BC

National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative

The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative supports schools and districts around the country in their efforts to reopen safely and equitably using outdoor spaces as strategic, cost-effective solutions to increase physical distancing capacity onsite and provide access to abundant fresh air. The Initiative seeks to equitably improve learning, mental and physical health, and happiness for children and adults using an affordable, time-tested outdoor approach to keeping schools open during a pandemic.

The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative was co-founded in May 2020 by Green Schoolyards America, The Lawrence Hall of Science, San Mateo County Office of Education, and Ten Strands. It has now grown to include more than 20 other partner organizations that are collaborating to build a national movement, hundreds of participating volunteers, and foundation partners.