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Get Kids Outdoors
Bydwain August 8, 2017April 11, 2018

Nature Heals. Nature Teaches. Nature Inspires. Every Kid Needs Nature. But Not Every Kid Has Access. At The Wildwoods Foundation, we believe that the lessons of nature can help us build more resilient families and more sustainable communities. That’s why our school and family programs feature an outdoor, nature exploration experience. But first, we have…

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We Can Do Better
Bydwain October 3, 2015April 11, 2018

In December of 2012, I wrote the following words. Not quite 3 years later, there have been 142 school shootings since the tragedy at Newtown. I can find no other, no better words than these to express what I’m feeling today: the anger and the sadness. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ More than a dozen years ago the horror…

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Wildwoods at City Hall
Bydwain June 24, 2015April 11, 2018

Holy Cow! Look what we just dug out of the vaults. A video (transferred from VHS, no less!) of Wildwoods Foundation founder and executive director Dwain Wilson addressing the Los Angeles City Council in honor of Earth Day in 2005. It may be a decade old, but the words are still true and remain at…

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On the Next Generation Science Standards & Systems Thinking
Bydwain August 25, 2014April 11, 2018

A couple of weeks back a teacher friend reminded us of a “rambling rant” that we sent her a year or so ago, after the release of the Next Generation Science Standards. With the public comment period on the California Department of Education’s implementation plan of those standards closing today, it seems worth revisiting and re-sharing these thoughts (now…

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