2025 Outdoor Learning Leadership Conference
2025 Outdoor Learning Leadership Conference
October 16-18, 2025
This conference will bring together 150-200 school system leaders and administrators at the world-renowned Banff Centre for 3 days of professional development, current research and growth around Outdoor Learning!
*Please note that Take Me Outside also hosts an annual Outdoor Learning Conference in May in Banff, AB, which focuses on professional development for educators and practitioners immersed in the education system as well as those trying to embed the outdoors as part of their teaching practice.
School system leaders and administrators are invited to attend the 2025 Outdoor Learning Leadership Conference at the world renowned Banff Centre from October 16-18, 2025!
The overarching theme for the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference is “Exploring Place and Pedagogy: Breaking Barriers for Where Learning Happens”. Conference themes will include Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Health & Wellbeing, and Environmental & Climate Change Education.
We will hear from experts in these fields through keynote presentations, panel discussions and hands-on workshops that specifically address school system issues . We hope that you are able to come and build community through inclusion, inspiration and ideas.
Meals included with conference ticket:
- Dinner Thursday
- Breakfast and Lunch Friday (Do your own dinner in Banff, Friday night)
- Breakfast Saturday
Where
Banff, AB
Treaty 7 Territory
When
October 16-18, 2025
Investment
$540 Early Bird Rate, opening February 2025
Limited subsidies available
Who is this conference for:
- District principals and vice-principals
- Principals and vice-principals
- Superintendents
- Academics and researchers
- Curriculum coordinators
- Lead teachers
Key Areas of Focus:
- breaking systemic barriers
- policies, guidelines and best practices
- training and supporting staff in their outdoor teaching journey
- evidence-based research
- risk and safety management
- inclusivity and offering opportunities for all
- supporting mental health through outdoor learning
- Indigenous Knowledge and its connections with outdoor learning.
If you have any questions, please contact karine@takemeoutside.ca
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